Luini

Luini, or LOVINO, BERNARDINO, a painter of the Lombard school, was born about 1470 at Luino, near the Lago Maggiore. He developed his skill in the school of Leonardo da Vinci; indeed many of his works used to be attributed to Leonardo. Luini's principal charms are a certain poetic grace and beauty. He died some time after 1530. He painted frescoes in the Ambrosian Library, in the Brera Gallery, and in the church of St Maurizio, all at Milan. Other works hang in the church at Lugano. His best-known easel-works include 'The Virgin Enthroned' (Brera), 'The Daughter of Herodias' (Louvre), 'Christ disputing with the Doctors' and 'Vanity and Modesty' (London), &c. Luini is one of the five great painters whose 'supremacy' Ruskin has affirmed. See G. C. Williamson's Bernardino Luini (1899).