Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467-1516)

• Was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance.
• He worked in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci.
• Boltraffio and Bernardino Luini are the strongest artistic personalities to emerge from Leonardo's studio.
• According to Giorgio Vasari, he was of an aristocratic family and was born in Milan.
• His portraits, often in profile, and his half-length renderings of the Madonna and Child are Leonardesque in conception.
• In Bologna, where he remained in 1500-1502, he found patrons in the Casio family, of whom he painted several portraits and for whom he produced his masterwork, the Pala Casio for the Church of the Misericordia (Louvre Museum).
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