The Nativity

Bernardino Butinone, a painter of the Lombard School, is documented from 1484 in Milan, the city where a number of his works have survived. His first known paintings date from the 1480s and reveal the influence of Andrea Mantegna, Francesco del Cossa, Cosmè Tura and Vincenzo Foppa. In 1485 Butinone began to collaborate with the painter Bernardo Zenale, and together they produced a series of fresco…