Giuliano Bugiardini

Giuliano Bugiardini (fantasy portrait from 1791)

Giuliano Bugiardini: John the Baptist in the Desert (1523–1525)

Giuliano Bugiardini (born January 29, 1476 in Florence , † February 17, 1555 there ) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance .

Live and act

In Florence, the banker Lorenzo il Magnifico established the first European art school, Accademia dei Giardini Medicei di San Marco (short: Giardino di San Marco ), on the site of a former garden between the Palazzo Casino Mediceo di San Marco and the Palazzo Socci . Giuliano Bugiardini was accepted and taught by two painters; first by Domenico Ghirlandaio and then by Piero di Cosimo . At the Accademia, he made friends with Michelangelo and became one of his followers. Bugiardini worked for a long time with Mariotto Albertinelli and Fra Bartolommeo . But while Raffael and Andrea del Sarto , for example, initially oriented themselves towards Fra Bartolommeo, Giuliano Bugiardini later moved to his friend Michelangelo. He assisted him in painting the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508–1512). Michelangelo gave him drawings as templates for his paintings.

Works (selection)

• Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna , John the Baptist in the Desert (1523–1525)
• Turin , Galleria Sabauda ( Madonna and Child and John the Baptist (around 1524))
• Florence, Uffizi Gallery , Madonna della Palma (1520)
• Florence, Santa Maria Novella ( Martyrdom of St. Catherine of Alexandria (around 1535))
• Vienna , Liechtenstein Museum , Portrait of a Young Woman (around 1525)
• Saint Petersburg , Hermitage , Madonna

uncertain attributions

• The Portrait of a Woman (around 1508) - 1819 by Ferdinand III. acquired, now in the Uffizi Gallery - previouslyattributed to Leonardo da Vinci . Even today the assignment is controversial. Some name Mariotto Albertinelli or Ridolfo Ghirlandaio as the painter of the picture.
• It is similar with the portrait of a young woman - created around 1520, today in the Museu Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon . Sometimes the painting - details in the design of the drapery suggest the influence of Raphael's La velata (1516) - is attributed to Giulio Romano .

literature

• Luigi Dami (ed.): Giorgio Vasari : Vita di Giuliano Bugiardini. Pittore fiorentino. R. Bemporad & Figlio, Florence 1915.
• Fritz Knapp : Bugiardini, Giuliano di Piero di Simone . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 5 : Brewer-Carlingen . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1911, p. 207-208 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Charles de Tolnay : Proposte per un ritratto di Francesco Guicciardini di Giuliano Bugiardini alla Yale University Art Gallery. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, 12, 1965/1966, pp. 359–365.
• Silvia Meloni Trkulja:  Bugiardini, Giuliano. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 15:  Buffoli-Caccianemici. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1972.
• Laura Pagnotta: Giuliano Bugiardini. U. Allemandi, Turin 1987, ISBN 88-422-0073-5 .

Web links

Commons : Giuliano Bugiardini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature on Giuliano Bugiardini in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Works on artnet
• Entries in Arthistoricum.net