Bernardino Licinio (c. 1489 – 1565)

• Was an Italian High Renaissance painter of Venice and Lombardy.
• Bernardino was the second son of ser Antonio Licino, part of a family from the municipality of Poscante in Bergamo.
• The first son was Arrigo or Rigo, the third Zuane Battista became a priest of the church of San Cassiano and the fourth Niccolò was also a parish priest of the church of San Biagio in Venice.
• From the information about his brothers, it can be deduced that Bernardino was born around 1489.
• In 1511 it appears he was already orphaned by his father and working as a painter.
• Bernardino and Arrigo soon settled in Venice. 

• The date of his death is not known but there are no documents and notarial deeds mentioning him after 1550.

• The work of Bernardino was properly attributed to him only in the early twentieth century, thanks to the clarification intervention of Gustav Ludwig in 1903.

• The misattribution was caused by Giorgio Vasari, who in both editions of the Lives, confused Bernardino Licinio with Il Pordenone, effectively obscuring both the life and the works of Licinio for more than three centuries.

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