Bartolomeo Suardi (c.1455 - c.1535), Italian painter and architect,
frequently called Bramantino, was born in Milan, the son of Alberto Suardi.
He executed a number of paintings containing portraits of celebrated
personages for the Vatican. In 1508 he was engaged in Rome. Bramante
d'Urbino taught Bramantino architecture, and the pupil assisted the master
in the execution of the interior of the church of San Satiro, Milan.
In 1525 Bramantino was appointed architect to the court by Duke Francis
(II) Sforza, and his aid as an engineer in the defence of Milan brought
him a multitude of rewards.
Bartolommeo Suardi has been much confused with a certain Bramantino da
Milano, of whom Vasari makes frequent and specific mention in his life of
Piero della Francesca, his observations on Benvenuto Garofalo and Girolamo
da Carpi, and his life of Jacopo Sansovino. The Bramantino of Vasari, if
he existed at all, worked for Pope Nicholas V between 1450 and 1455. His
masterpieces are the Brera Cruxicificion (1510 ca.) and The Adoration of
the Kings (1495 cca. in the National Gallery of London.
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