- Bernardo Zenale
Bernardo or Bernardino Zenale (c. 1460 – 1526) was an Italian painter and architect.
Biography
Zenale was born in
Treviglio ,Lombardy , where in 1485 he finished the greatpolyptych for the church of St. Martin, together with his fellowBernardino Butinone . Later he collaborated to the decoration of theCertosa di Pavia . Subsequently he was engaged byLudovico Sforza ,Duke of Milan , to paint a room in theCastello Sforzesco of that city. Also with Butinone, he frescoed the Grifi Chapel in the church ofSan Pietro in Gessate .After circa 1500, Zenale seemed to abandon the Ferrarese-expressionist style of Butinone, a strong influence from
Leonardo da Vinci starting to appear in his works. This is in the polyptych that he painted for the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception ofCantù (1502 [Now divided between theJ. Paul Getty Museum ofLos Angeles [http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=666] , the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi and theMuseo Poldi Pezzoli ofMilan ] ). He was influenced also byBernardino Luini 's style: works like the "Pala Busti" and the large "Annunciation" (both in thePinacoteca di Brera ) have indeed raised disputes about the attribution to Luini or Zenale.Zenale worked also in
Brescia (the noteworthy "Deposition" in the church of St. John the Evangelist). In 1510 he painted a "Madonna with Child between St. Ambrose and St. Jerome", for the church of St. Francis in Milan, now inDenver . In 1522 he replacedGiovanni Antonio Amadeo in the direction of works of theDuomo di Milano .ources
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