San Francis of Assisi

Bernardino Lanino

Download hi-res image TITLE San Francis of Assisi
AUTHOR Bernardino Lanino
DATE c. 1545
OBJECT TYPE AND MATERIAL Oil on panel
TECNICA OPERA Oil on panel transferred to canvas
DIMENSIONS cm 41x39
INVENTORY 749
ROOM XII
Work on display

This small, melancholy and sentimental St. Francis, its colours transparent and subtle, perfectly captures Lanino’s subscription to the style of Gaudenzio Ferrari. Lanino trained in Vercelli where he rubbed shoulders with Ferrari and Gerolamo Giovenone, the leading players in the renewal of painting in the eastern Piedmont. He married Giovenone’s daughter in 1540 and became the most successful painter in the Vercelli area after Ferrari left for Milan in 1537.