Giulio bonasone michelangelo biography

Giulio Bonasone

Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna (c. 1498–after 1574)

Giulio Bonasone (c. 1498 – after 1574) (or Giulio de Antonio Buonasone or Julio Bonoso) was an Italian painter and engraver born in Bologna. He possibly studied painting under Lorenzo Sabbatini, and painted a Purgatory for the church of San Stefano, but all his paintings have been lost. He is better known as an engraver and is believed to have trained with Marcantonio Raimondi. He worked mainly in Mantua, Rome and Venice and with great success, producing etchings and engravings after the old masters and his own designs. He signed his plates B., I.B., Julio Bonaso, Julio Bonasone, Juli Bonasonis, Julio Bolognese Bonahso.[1]

He has been regarded an engraver with extraordinary skills in reproducing, as he could accurately convey the sources' compositions, colours, and essence. Moreover, he expressed his understanding about the controversies about religion and culture in his time through his prints. He is considered among the most important and productive engravers of the

Michelangelo Buonarroti Giulio Bonasone

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The drawing on which this engraving was modelled depicts the Madonna with the sleeping Christ Child, Joseph and John the Baptist. Based on John’s gesture, the work is also known as the Madonna del Silenzio (The Madonna of Silence). The work probably belongs to a group of works that Michelangelo made for his friend Vittoria Colonna, the widow of the Marquis of Pescara. Their strong bond was severed by Vittoria’s untimely death in 1547 that greatly affected Michelangelo, further intensifying his religious zeal.

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