MAGNIFICAT October Cover of the Month: Human Love Elevated to the Divine by Pierre-Marie Dumont Bernardino Luini is best known as the alter ego of Leonardo da Vinci. And, it is true, for a long time …More
MAGNIFICAT October Cover of the Month: Human Love Elevated to the Divine by Pierre-Marie Dumont
Bernardino Luini is best known as the alter ego of Leonardo da Vinci. And, it is true, for a long time their works were attributed one to the other and vice versa. But, in fact, painting on canvas formed only a marginal part of Luini’s oeuvre: he was primarily a frescoist. Since on the one hand most of his frescoes have been lost and, on the other hand, Leonardo’s work has since attained mythic status, posterity remembers only of Luini what can challenge Leonardo.
Thank God, a remarkable ensemble of frescoes by Luini has been saved and is today in the collection of the Brera Museum (Milan). Its theme is the marriage of the Virgin Mary. The element presented here on the cover of your Magnificat dates to 1520. We find Mary and Joseph at the head of a wedding procession following the celebration of their marriage. This stunning work lends credence to his contemporaries’ judgment that Luini’s …More
Bernardino Luini is best known as the alter ego of Leonardo da Vinci. And, it is true, for a long time their works were attributed one to the other and vice versa. But, in fact, painting on canvas formed only a marginal part of Luini’s oeuvre: he was primarily a frescoist. Since on the one hand most of his frescoes have been lost and, on the other hand, Leonardo’s work has since attained mythic status, posterity remembers only of Luini what can challenge Leonardo.
Thank God, a remarkable ensemble of frescoes by Luini has been saved and is today in the collection of the Brera Museum (Milan). Its theme is the marriage of the Virgin Mary. The element presented here on the cover of your Magnificat dates to 1520. We find Mary and Joseph at the head of a wedding procession following the celebration of their marriage. This stunning work lends credence to his contemporaries’ judgment that Luini’s …More