Excerpt from Luini<br><br>Lombardy, as he has been called, was one of the most charming as well as one of the most prolific of North Italian artists; and yet of the life of no other equally eminent painter of the period is so little definite known. It is generally accepted that he was born between 1465 and 1475 at Luino, a sunny little town picturesquely situated among somber chestnut-trees and gray olive groves on the shore of Lake Maggiore. From Luino, in accord ance with a custom of the times, he took his name; and to this day an old house, reached by a steep path winding up from the lake, is pointed out to the traveler as the birthplace of the painter, for whom the neighboring street is named, and whom the inhabitants of the place confidently claim as a native of their town.<br><br>It has been stated that Luini was the son of one Giovanni Lutero of Luino; that he had a brother, Ambrogio, who was a painter, and two sons, Aurelio and Evangelista, who adopted their father's profession and assisted him in some of his works. We are further told that he went to Milan in or soon after the year 1500; and from the dates that he himself has placed on four of his great frescos, still in the churches for which they were originally painted, we have definite assurance of the scenes of his labors at certain periods of his career.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.