Biagio Pupini (c.1490–c.1575)

• Biagio Pupini was an Italian painter.
• Active mainly in his native city of Bologna.
• He was known to be active mainly during 1530–1540.
• He was a disciple of Francesco Francia.
• Pupini is first documented - already described as magister - working with Bagnacavallo in a church in Faenza in 1511.

• He must have also spent some time in Rome in the late 1510’s or 1520’s, where he copied the works of Raphael and Polidoro da Caravaggio.

• Pupini worked with Bagnacavallo at the church of San Salvatore in Bologna around 1524, and the following year collaborated with Girolamo da Carpi on the fresco decoration of the sacristy of San Michele in Bosco.

• In 1537 he again worked alongside Girolamo da Carpi on the frescoes of the Sala delle Vigne of the d’Este villa at Belriguardo, southeast of Ferrara.

• A painting by Pupini of The Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas of Tolentino, painted for the sacristy of the cathedral at Fabriano and now in the Pinacoteca there, is dated 1545. 

• In his biography of the artist published in the Pitture di Bologna of 1686, Malvasia lists several paintings by Pupini, almost all of which are now lost or destroyed. 

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