Leonardesque painter of the 16th century Salvator... Lot 69

Leonardesque painter of the 16th century Salvator Mundi Oil on copper 28 x 19 cm In Tuscany, Leonardo da Vinci neither availed himself of help nor had any real pupils. Thanks to his success, in Milan he was the artist of reference in the local scene and a source of inspiration for the new generation, which assumed his style. Even established masters such as Bergognone or Bernardino Zenale reckoned with the influence brought by Leonardo, denouncing it in their works. In Lombard land, Da Vinci's pupils and followers lavished their art in the first three decades of the 16th century, following the foundational elements of Leonardo's art such as sfumato, the perfect and melancholy beauty of the characters and the ambiguity of the faces. Leonardo's subjects set the school: many paintings by his followers show a strong direct Vinci derivation, while others merely replicated examples from the master. The Leonardesque painters were a veritable galaxy: some were his pupils, some were his helpers, some belonged to the circle that was inspired by the master, and others were artists from other regions of Italy or from abroad who grasped his lesson during their stay in Milan. Such a large and heterogeneous group very often complicates the determination of the artistic authorship of the works, and often many paintings are conventionally catalogued as "work of Leonardesque painter." Embracing the range of artists involved more or less directly and more or less constantly with Leonardo da Vinci art, the Leonardesque painters were: Francesco Melzi, Gian Giacomo Caprotti called Salaì, Ambrogio de Predis, Bernardino Luini, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Cesare da Sesto, Andrea Solario, Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli called Giampietrino, Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, Francesco Napoletano, Marco d'Oggiono, Martino Piazza, Benardino Zenale, Girolamo Melegulo, Cesare Magni, Bernardino Ferrari, Bernardino Fasolo, Bernardino de' Conti, Ambrogio da Fossano known as Bergognone, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Sodoma, Gian Francesco Maineri, Giovanni Francesco Carotto, Gaudenzio Ferrari, Bernardino Lanino, Maestro di Ercole and Gerolamo Visconti, the Flemish Joos van Cleve, and the Spaniards Fernando Yanez and Fernando Llanos. Leonardesque painter of the 16th century Salvator Mundi Oil on copper 28 x 19 cm