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Bernardino Luini (c 1480-1532), Portrait of a Lady, 1520/1525, Milanese. Oil on panel. 119.5 x 103.5 x 10.6 cm. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (http://www.nga.gov); Andrew W. Mellon Collection.

Within a span of just 30 years, from 1452 to 1483, the three greatest painters of the Italian High Renaissance—Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Raffaelo Sanzio—were born. And then there was Bernardino Luini (c 1480-1532): it should have been the best of times, but for him it probably seemed more like the worst of times, like being the unimaginative middle child in a family of geniuses. Two years older than Raphael, six years younger than Michelangelo, and 30 years younger than Leonardo, he found everything had already been done. How does one go beyond the beyond? And so he imitated the masters, trying to explain them to the public, to make them more . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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