Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (* 1467 in Milan ; † 1516 there ; occasionally Giovanni Beltraffio ) was an Italian painter of noble origin.
Life
Boltraffio was a student of Leonardo da Vinci , whose Milan workshop he joined in 1491. When Leonardo left the city, Boltraffio also left. He later worked in Bologna , where in 1500 he created one of his masterpieces, "Casio Madonna" . In 1514 he worked in Rome . Boltraffio developed his own style, which admittedly was heavily based on that of his master. Technically perfect, he left behind many beautiful paintings and drawings that reveal a refined taste - as well as great charisma and lively characteristics.
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio died in Milan in 1516 at the age of 49 and found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Church of San Paolo in Comito. The monumental monument of Leonardo da Vinci on the Piazza della Scala in Milan shows Giovanni Boltraffio, together with three other artists from the school of Leonardo ( Marco d'Oggiono , Cesare da Sesto and Andrea Salaino ).
Works (selection)
- Madonna and Child (Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli ).
- Madonna and Child (Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum ).
- Resurrection with St. Lucia and Leonhard - Pala Griffi (1491–94, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, in collaboration with Marco d'Oggiono ).
- Young man with an arrow (Moscow, Pushkin Museum ).
- Young man with an arrow (San Diego, Timken Museum ).
- Portrait of a young man (Washington, National Gallery ).
- Pala Casio (around 1500, Paris, Louvre ).
- Saint Barbara (around 1502, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie ).
- Portrait of a nobleman (Bern, Art Museum ).
- Pala di Lodi (around 1508, Budapest, Szépművészeti Múzeum ).
- Madonna and Child (Bergamo, Pinacoteca Carrara ).
- Madonna and Child (London, National Gallery ).
Controversial works (selection)
- Madonna Litta (Saint Petersburg, Hermitage ), possibly in collaboration with Marco d'Oggiono .
- Holy Family (Prague, National Gallery ), a red chalk preliminary study for this picture in the Royal Windsor Collection is likely to be by Cesare da Sesto . The oil painting could also have been created in collaboration or as one of several (now lost) variants by different authors.
- Madonna and Child and Donor (Rome, Museo del Tasso in Sant'Onofrio ).
- Madonna and Child (Berlin, Gemäldegalerie ). The painting was acquired by Wilhelm von Bode in Florence in 1872 , was listed in the catalog as Boltraffio as late as 1931, and has been lost since 1945 after it was stored in the Flakbunker Friedrichshain . In February 2012 it was repurchased from American private ownership by donation from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . Since then, the plant has been listed as an “anonymous master of the Lombard school”.
- In the opinion of Carmen Bambach , curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , the painting Salvator Mundi ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci , whose provenance is uncertain and the authorship of art historians is controversial, is a work of Boltraffio, with a few small retouches by Leonardo.
literature
- Maria T. Fiorio: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. Un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo , Jandi Sapi, Milan 2000, ISBN 88-7142-041-1
- Rodman R. Henry: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. A stylist; a study of his work , Dissertation, Boston University, Mass. 1989
Individual evidence
- ↑ Missing Maria returns to Berlin . In: Berliner Zeitung, February 10, 2012; P. 17
- ↑ Dalya Alberge: Leonardo da Vinci expert declines to back Salvator Mundi as his painting , The Guardian, June 2, 2019, accessed June 6, 2019
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Beltraffio, Giovanni |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1467 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1516 |
| Place of death | Milan |