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SAMUEL H. KRESS COLLECTION RESEARCH: GIULIANO BUGIARDINI

ARTIST

Anonymous artist, Portrait of Giuliano Bugiardini, engraving from "Le Vite" by Giorgio Vasari, edition of 1568.

An Italian painter and draughtsman, Giuliano Bugiardini (b. 1475 d. 1574) was associated with the 16th c. Florentine Mannerist style of painting. Born Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini, he was also known as Giuliano di Piero di Simone. According to the 16th-century biographer and artist Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Bugiardini first studied with the sculptor, Bertoldo di Giovanni, and began his training in painting as an apprentice in the studio of Domenico Ghirlandaio (1449 – 1494). It was in Ghirlandaio’s studio that Bugiardini was introduced to Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), whom he assisted on the frescos of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. While his early work reflects the style of his master, his mature work was strongly influenced by Mariotto Albertinelli (1475-1515), whom he met through the artists’ guild, the Compagnia di San Luca, and with whom he shared a studio from 1503 until 1509, when Albertinelli joined the workshop of Fra Bartolommeo (Baccio della Porta, 1472 – 1517).

Bugiardini’s Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist (Allentown Art Museum) shows the artist’s awareness of the Florentine works of Raphael (1483 – 1520), in particular, the subject matter and iconography of Raphael’s The Holy Family with a Palm Tree (1506), and the pyramidal composition of Raphael’s Esterhazy Madonna (1508).

Additional works by Bugiardini in the Samuel H. Kress Collection

Giuliano Bugiardini, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist, c. 1523-25
113cm H x 81.5cm W, Oil on cradled panel
Allentown Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Photo: Allentown Art Museum,
Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961. (1960.10)
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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio), Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John. The Esterhazy Madonna, 1508
28.5cm x 21.5cm, Tempera and oil
The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Photo: Razso Andras
©The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest/Scala / Art Resource, NY
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Raphael (Raffaello Santi), The Holy Family with a Palm Tree, 1506
101.5cm diameter, Oil and gold on canvas, transferred from panel
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery, (Bridgewater Loan, 1945)
Image Credit: Raphael (Raffaello Santi), The Holy Family with a Palm Tree, © National Gallery of Scotland (Bridgewater Loan, 1945)

This photo was used with permission from the NGS, all forms of of reproduction, transmission, performance, display, rental, lending or storage in any retrieval system are prohibited without the written consent of the copyright holders and NGS.

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