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 in Venice 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.[1] Bernardino and Arrigo soon settled in Venice, like many Bergamo artists of the time.[2]
The date of his death is not known but there are no documents and notarial deeds mentioning him after 1550, which could be considered his death date.[1]
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 Bernardino Licinio for more than three centuries.[3]
^
abLuisa Vertova (1975). "Bernardino Licinio". I pittori bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX secolo. pp. 373–467. {{
cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (
help)
^Miklós Boskovits, Giorgio Fossaluzza (1998). La collezione Cagnola. I dipinti.
Busto Arsizio. {{
cite book}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (
help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (
link) p. 180.
Detlev Frhr. von Hadeln (1910), Einige Bilder und Zeichnungen des Bernardino Licinio, Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, Vol. 3, No. 7 (1910), pp. 279-282, von Hadeln, Detlev Frhr (1910).
"Einige Bilder und Zeichnungen des Bernardino Licinio". Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft. 3 (7): 279–282.
JSTOR24492244. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. pp. 344–345 Penguin Books Ltd.
Severin Josef Hansbauer (2004), Das oberitalienische Familienporträt in der Kunst der Renaissance. Studien zu den Anfängen, zur Verbreitung und Bedeutung einer Bildnisgattung, Doctoral Thesis Würzburg, Chapter A III (Bernardino Licinio und die Genese des breitformatigen bürgerlichen Familienporträts in Venedig)
"Online Publication"(PDF). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
Karine Tsoumis (2013), Bernardino Licinio: Portraiture, Kinship and Community in Renaissance Venice, Doctoral Thesis Toronto
"Online Publication"(PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2023.