Bernardo Zenale

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Bernardo Zenale , also Bernardino Zenale, (* around 1460 in Treviglio , † 1526 in Milan ) was an Italian Renaissance painter.

life and work

Bernardo Zenale was probably a student of Vincenzo Foppa and worked closely with Bernardino Butinone , also from Treviglio .

His main works include the Marien-Polyptychon (Maria, Saint Martin and other saints) in San Martino in Treviglio with Bernardino Butinone, a major work of Lombard painting in the 15th century. It was commissioned in 1485. With Butinone he also painted the frescoes in the Grifi Chapel in San Pietro in Gessate in Milan (1491–1493). Around 1490 he painted a hall in the Castello Sforzesco for Duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan .

He later showed the influence of Leonardo da Vinci , for example in the altarpiece for the Brotherhood of the Immaculate Conception in Cantù , which is now partly in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and in museums in Milan. Another polyptych for Sant'Anna in Milan is now also distributed among several museums ( Contini-Bonacossi collection in Florence, Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence (Kansas) ).

He also worked as an architect and in 1522 replaced Giovanni Antonio Amadeo in directing the work on the Milan Cathedral .

Works

  • Story of St. Ambrose, frescoes with butinone, 1493, Grifo Chapel in San Pietro in Gessate, Milan

  • Angels making music on the ceiling, with butinone, Grifo Chapel in San Pietro in Gessate

  • Adoration of the Child, Getty Museum, Los Angeles

  • Mary's polyptych, with butinone, around 1500, San Martino in Treviglio

  • Madonna and Child, Saint Ambrose and Saint Jerome, Basilica of San Ambrogio, Milan

  • Anthony of Padua, Museo Poldi Pezzoli

  • Entombment of Christ, San Giovanni, Brescia

  • Madonna with Saints, Polyptych Sant Anna, Spencer Museum of Art

literature

  • M. Natale, A. Mottola Molfino (Editor) Zenale e Leonardo. Tradizione e rinnovamento della pittura lombarda , catalog of the exhibition Milan 1982/83, Milan 1983
  • S. Buganza Bernardo Zenale , in M. Gregori (Editor) Pittura a Milano. Rinascimento e Manierismo , Milan 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Zenale, Bernardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zenale, Bernardino
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Treviglio
DATE OF DEATH 1526
Place of death Milan