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BARTOLOMMEO SUARDI (c. 1455-c. 1536)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 1061 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARTOLOMMEO

SUARDI (c. 1455-c. 1536)  ,
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Italian painter and architect, frequently called Bramantino, was born in Milan, the son of Alberto Suardi . He executed a number of paintings containing portraits of celebrated personages for the Vatican . In r5o8 he was engaged in Rome . Bramante d'Urbino taught Bramantino architecture, and the pupil assisted the master in the execution of the interior of the church of
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San Satiro, Milan . In 1525 Bramantino was appointed architect to the court by Duke Francis (II.) Sforza, and his aid as an engineer in tht defence of Milan brought him a multitude of rewards . Bartolommeo Suardi has been much confused with a certain Bramantino da Milano, of whom Vasari makes. frequent and specific mention in his
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life of Piero della Francesca, his observations on Benvenuto Garofalo and Girolamo da Carpi, and his life of Jacopo Sansovino .

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