Francesco Binasco

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Francesco Binasco was a northern Italian illuminator who worked for the Sforza family in Milan after 1500 . There is evidence that after 1520 he was still employed at the court of Francesco Sforza , the last sovereign Duke of Milan. Before that, he is said to have worked as a copper engraver and goldsmith for Massimiliano Sforza, who ruled Milan until 1513 .

Binasco, along with the master of the Sforza prayer book and Antonio da Monza , is counted among the three leading illuminators who worked in Milan at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century. At that time, Milan was still a center of art in Northern Italy under the Sforza. Binasco was influenced, among other things, by Leonardo da Vinci , who worked in Milan from 1480 and with whose arrival there a previously more conservative style in Lombardy received new impulses.

Binasco's name can be found in Paolo Morigia's book Nobilità di Milano from Milan from 1595. There he is mentioned as a great illuminator ... in the service of Francesco Sforza . Binasco may have painted some of the miniatures that have survived from the reign of these dukes and are signed BF .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Wescher: Francesco Binasco, miniature painter of the Sforza . In: Yearbook of the Berlin museums, 2nd volume, (1960), p. 75
  2. ↑ Master BF In: Oxford Grove Art. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Online version 2002 (accessed December 2011, English language)

literature

  • Paolo D'Ancona: La miniature italianne du Xe au XVIe siècle . Paris 1815
  • Paul Wescher: Descriptive directory of the miniatures ... of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Berlin State Museums . Berlin 1931
  • Paul Wescher: Francesco Binasco, miniature painter of the Sforza . In: Yearbook of the Berlin museums, 2nd volume, (1960), pp. 75–91
  • Mirella Levi D'Ancona: The Wildenstein Collection of Illuminations. The Lombard School . Florence 1970
  • Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Hrsg.): The masterpieces from the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin . Stuttgart and Zurich 1980
personal data
SURNAME Binasco, Francesco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Italian illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century