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| Giuliano Bugiardini Portrait of a Florentine Lady ca. 1515-25 oil on canvas Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Birth of St John the Baptist 1517-18 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Birth of St John the Baptist (detail) 1517-18 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Birth of St John the Baptist (detail) 517-18 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Birth of St John the Baptist (detail) 1517-18 oil on canvas Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Portrait of Leonardo de' Ginori ca. 1528 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Abduction of Dinah ca. 1535 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini St John the Baptist in the Desert ca. 1523-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini St John the Baptist in the Desert (detail) ca. 1523-25 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini The Story of Tobit 1536 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini The Story of Tobit (detail) 1536 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini The Story of Tobit (detail) 1536 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini The Story of Tobit (detail) 1536 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Giuliano Bugiardini The Story of Tobit (detail) 1536 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
". . . Messer Ottaviano de' Medici having besought Giuliano Bugiardini privately that he should take for him the portrait of Michelangelo Buonarroti, he set his hand to it; and, after he had kept Michelangelo, who used to take pleasure in his conversation, sitting for two hours, Giuliano said to him: 'Michelangelo, if you wish to see yourself, get up and look, for I have now fixed the expression of your face.' Michelangelo, having risen and looked at the portrait, said to Giuliano, laughing: 'What the devil have you been doing? You have painted me with one of my eyes up in the temple. Give a little thought to what you are doing.' Hearing this, Giuliano, after standing pensive for a while and looking many times from the portrait to the living model, answered in serious earnest: 'To me it does not seem so, but sit you down again, and I shall see a little better from the life whether it be true.' Buonarotti, who knew whence the defect arose and how small was the judgment of Bugiardini, straightway resumed his seat, grinning. And Giuliano looked many times now at Michelangelo and now at the picture, and then finally, rising to his feet, declared: 'To me it seems that the thing is just as I have drawn it, and that the life is in no way different.' 'Well, then,' answered Buonarroti, 'it is a natural deformity. Go on, and spare neither brush nor art.' And so Giuliano finished the picture and gave it to Messer Ottaviano . . ."
– from Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1568), translated by Gaston du C. de Vere (1912)
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| Giuliano Bugiardini Virgin and Child ca. 1518 oil on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |