Bonifacio Bembo
Italian painter and miniaturist of the early-Renaissance (1420-1480) · Artists · Died at 60
Bonifacio Bembo, also known as Bonfazio Bembo, or simply just Bembo, was a northern Italian Renaissance artist born in Brescia in 1420. He was the son of Giovanni Bembo, an active painter during his time. As a painter, Bonifacio mainly worked in Cremona.
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Portrait of Francesco Sforza. ca. 1460.
Tempera on panel, 40 x 31 cm. Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.
Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian attributed to Bonifacio Bembo from an altarpiece displayed in the Church of Sant’Agostino in Cremona. Circa 1454-1458
The Popess tarot card from the Visconti-Sforza deck drawn and painted by Bonifacio Bembo.
Pavia, Collegio Castiglioni Brugnatelli, frescoes in the chapel, 1475.About this person
He was patronized by the Sforza family and was commissioned to paint portraits of Francesco Sforza and his wife Bianca Maria Visconti. Scholars have credited him as the artist who produced a tarot card deck for the Visconti-Sforza families, now held in the Cary Collection of Playing Cards at Yale University. In the past century, art historians have begun to question the authenticity of his works, believing his only two secure works to be the portraits of Francesco and Bianca Maria Sforza. He is believed to have died sometime before 1482.
