Aurelio Luini
Illustration — Ol compà Digliagòr and Ol compà Braghetògn, two caricatures. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Aurelio Luini (c.
Also recorded as Aurelio Lovino
Aurelio Luini
Aurelio Luini · Public domain
- Born
- 1530. · Milan.
- Died
- 1593. · Milan.
- Occupation
- painter and draftsperson.
- Known for
- Noah's ark and Fresco of the Descent from the Cross.
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Illustration — Ol compà Digliagòr and Ol compà Braghetògn, two caricatures. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Aurelio Luini (c.
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1530–1593) was an Italian painter and draughtsman from Milan, the fourth and last son of Bernardino Luini. A representative of late Lombard Mannerism, he was a friend of Gian Paolo Lomazzo. Together with his brother Giovan Pietro, also a painter, he frescoed the Bergamini chapel in San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore in Milan (1555). Other works by him include a Lamentation in San Barnaba, frescoes in Santa Maria di Campagna at Pallanza, near Lake Maggiore (together with Carlo Urbino), frescoes for San Vincenzo alle Monache (now in the Pinacoteca di Brera), a Saint Tecla for the Milan Cathedral and a Madonna between SS. Roch and Sebastian for Tortona cathedral. • Illustration — Rising in Noah's ark, painted by Aurelio Luini, ca. San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore Church, Milan, Italy.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Works named in the authority record are Noah's ark and Fresco of the Descent from the Cross. Work by Aurelio Luini is recorded in the collections of Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Palace Museum in Wilanów and National Museum in Warsaw.
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded as human. The record continues: aurelio Luini is recorded with the occupation painter. Recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Institutional cataloguing adds that aurelio Luini is recorded with the gender male. Born on 1 January 1530. Luini died in Milan. Institutional cataloguing adds that aurelio Luini worked at Venice.

Madonna and Child with Angels, late 1500s, by Aurelio Luini
Aurelio Luini · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Edwin R. and Harriet Pelton Perkins Memorial Fund
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- 1.Pietro Marani. Luini, Aurelio. 66.
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This entry is compiled from 10 catalogued sources across 7 independent registers. The registers consulted are Crossref registry, Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Cleveland Museum of Art and Internet Archive. Every statement above is held against the register that stated it; where the registers are silent, the entry is silent.
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