Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers

Prints and Drawings

1565/70

Bernardino Lanino
Italian, c. 1509-after 1581

This large-scale cartoon, a full-size preparatory model for an unidentified altarpiece, is made up of six sheets of paper pasted together. The group of young women on the right indicates that the final painting was probably intended for a female religious community. One figure was later transformed into a male through the addition of a beard.

Trained in northern Italy, Bernardino Lanino was exposed to the work of Leonardo and absorbed his signature effects of chiaroscuro, strong contrasts of light and dark, and sfumato, softened outlines and hazy forms.

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Artist: Bernardino Lanino
Title: Madonna and Child, a Warrior Saint (Michael?), and a Group of Worshippers
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1565–1570
Medium: Brush with brown and black ink and brown wash, black chalk, heightened with white, on multiple sheets of pieced, blue laid paper (now discolored).
Dimensions: 91 × 71 cm (35 7/8 × 28 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Reference Number: 2019.853
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Giuseppe Colombo, “Documenti e notizie intorno gli artisti vercellesi” (G. Francesco, 1883) pp. 248-49 (testament of Pietro Antonio Lanino, Doctor of Medicine, last son of Beernardin, Jan. 8, 1636).

Art Institute of Chicago, Gray Collection: Seven Centuries of Art, Sept. 25, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011, cat. 8 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection”, January 25 - May 10, 2020, p. 131, GC 14.

Probably artist’s workshop; by descent to his son Pietro Antonio Lanino; by descent to his nephew Carlo Solero, 1636. Sold, Rome, June 1914. Private collection, England. Sold by Trinity Fine Art, London, to Richard and Mary L. Gray, Chicago, Mar. 2010; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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