bernardino luini

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born 1480/85 died 1532, Milan Italian painter active in Milan. Little is known of his life. His earliest surviving works are a polyptych in a church near Como ( 1510) and a fresco, Madonna and Child (1512), at the Cistercian monastery of Chiravalle, near Milan. Working in the Renaissance style, he was a prominent follower of Leonardo da Vinci in Lombardy; many of Luini's frescoes and altarpieces are in Lombardy churches. He also painted mythological subjects, most notably a Europa and a Cephalus and Procris ( 1520), originally for a Milanese palace