Monday, August 15, 2022

Bartolomeo Suardi, called Bramantino (ca. 1456-ca. 1530)

Bramantino
Noli me tangere
ca. 1490-95
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco,
Milan

Bramantino
Standing Christ with the Cross
before 1530
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Bramantino
The Lamentation
ca. 1512-15
oil on panel
National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest

Bramantino
Study for The Entombment
before 1530
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Bramantino
Adoration of the Magi (detail)
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Bramantino
Adoration of the Magi (detail)
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Bramantino
Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1500
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Bramantino
Virgin and Child
ca. 1515-20
oil on panel
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Bramantino
Kneeling Figure
ca. 1490
drawing
(drapery study)
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Bramantino
The Nativity
ca. 1490-92
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Bramantino
Virgin and Child
1508
oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Bramantino
Madonna of the Towers
ca. 1520
oil on panel
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Bramantino
The Flight into Egypt
ca. 1515-20
oil on panel
Santuario della Madonna del Sasso,
Orselina, Switzerland

Bramantino
The Crucifixion
ca. 1520
oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Bramantino
Story of Baucis and Philemon
ca. 1490-95
oil on panel
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

"The artist's real name was Bartolomeo Suardi.  The name Bramantino suggests he was associated with the architect Bramante, but the nature of this relationship is not known.  Bramantino was active in Milan, and recorded in Rome in 1508.  In 1525 he was appointed painter and architect to Francesco Sforza II, ruler of Milan.  Leonardo da Vinci overwhelmingly influenced many local painters in Milan, but it appears that Bramantino was not one of them.  Stylistically his works continue to tradition of pre-Leonardesque Milanese painting of Butinone and Foppa.  Bramantino's work also shows influences from further afield, notably that of Piero della Francesca and of Mantegna."

– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London