Art, literature & historyGiovanni Antonio Boltraffio
1467–1516
Selected artwork
Portrait of a Youth
c. 1495/1498
National Gallery of Art
Other names (14)
A. Boltraffio, Antonio Boltraffia, Antonio Boltraffio, Boltraffio, Boltrafio, élève de Léonard de Vinci Antonio Boltraffio, Gian Antonio Boltraffio, gian antonio bolttraffio, Giovanni Antonio Beltraffio, Giovanni Antonio Beltraffio of Bologna, Giovanni Antonio Boltrafio, Giovanni Boltraffio, giov. ant. boltraffio, of Bologna Geo. An. Boltroffio
Biography
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (or Beltraffio) (1466 or 1467 – 1516) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance from Lombardy, who worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci. 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.
His major painting of the 1490s is the Resurrection (painted with fellow da Vinci pupil Marco d'Oggiono and now in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). 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.
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Influenced by
- Leonardo da Vincieditorial inference
Evidence
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- Museo Poldi Pezzoli2 recorded works
- Accademia Carrara1 recorded work
- Museo Lázaro Galdiano1 recorded work
- Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza1 recorded work
- National Gallery of Art1 recorded work
- North Carolina Museum of Art1 recorded work
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts1 recorded work
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany1 recorded work