. Luini. a, ►? a a •< - a. X. IOJt T OK IIV ) , SAlttlXXO Fiilliiwing a fashion of his day, Luini is said to have introduced his own portrait intoseveral of his composition?. It is found in his picture of The Nativity at Como,in the Lugano * Crucifixion, where tradition points to the centurion on horseback as aliiceness of the artist, and, a^ain, in the fresco at Saronno of Christ Disputing withthe Doctors, from which the portrait here reproduced is taken, and where he ap-pears m one corner of the picture in the guise of a rahbi — a vener

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. Luini. a, ►? a a •< - a. X. IOJt T OK IIV ) , SAlttlXXO Fiilliiwing a fashion of his day, Luini is said to have introduced his own portrait intoseveral of his composition?. It is found in his picture of The Nativity at Como,in the Lugano * Crucifixion, where tradition points to the centurion on horseback as aliiceness of the artist, and, a^ain, in the fresco at Saronno of Christ Disputing withthe Doctors, from which the portrait here reproduced is taken, and where he ap-pears m one corner of the picture in the guise of a rahbi — a venerable old man wiihlong white beard, who turns his kindly face towards the spectator. MASTERS IN ART l^tvnut^ino %nini BORN 14 —? DIED 15 —?LOMBARD SCHOOL BERNARDINO LUINI (pronounced Loo eenee), the Raphael ofLombardy, as he has been called, was one of the most charming aswell as one of the most prolific of North Italian artists; and yet of the lifeof no other equally eminent painter of the period is so little definite know

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