Giovanni antonio boltraffio biography of rory

Italian painter (1467–1516)

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (or Beltraffio) (1466 or 1467^[1] – 1516) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.^[2] Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio.

According to Giorgio Vasari, he was of an aristocratic family and was born in Milan.

Paintings

His major painting of the 1490s is the Resurrection (painted with fellow da Vinci pupil Marco d'Oggiono and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Giovanni antonio boltraffio biography of rory

A Madonna and Child in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli of Milan, is one of the high points of the Lombard Quattrocento.

His portraits, often in profile, and his half-length renderings of the Madonna and Child are Leonardesque in conception, though the clean hard edges of his outlines lack Leonardo's sfumato.

In Bologna, where he remained in 1500-1502, he found sympathetic