Bernardino Licinio

Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489 in Poscante – 1565) was an Italian High Renaissance painter of Venice and Lombardy.

Bernardino was the second son of ser Antonio Licino, part of a family from the municipality of Poscante in Bergamo.

The first son was Arrigo or Rigo, the third (Zuane Battista) became a priest of the church of San Cassiano in Venice and the fourth (Niccolò) was also a parish priest of the church of San Biagio in Venice.

[1] The work of Bernardino was properly attributed to him only in the early twentieth century, thanks to the clarification intervention of Gustav Ludwig in 1903.

The misattribution was caused by Giorgio Vasari, who in both editions of the Lives, confused Bernardino Licinio with Il Pordenone, effectively obscuring both the life and the works of Bernardino Licinio for more than three centuries.

Madonna with Child in Arms , Frari , Venice
Portrait of an architect with a self-portrait of Bernardo Licinio in the background (ca. 1520-1530S), Martin von Wagner Museum
Bernardino Licinio. A wife with her husband's portrait . c. 1500. Bergamo, Italy