Giuliano bugiardini biography books

Italian painter

This article is about the painter. For other people with the same surname, see Bugiardini.

Giuliano di Piero di Simone Bugiardini (29 January 1475 – 17 February 1555) was an Italian Renaissance painter.

He was born and was mainly active in Florence.^[1] He was a painter primarily of religious subjects but he also executed a number of portraits and a few works with mythological subjects.

Life and work

Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists, devoted a biography to Bugiardini in which he claimed the artist began his career under the sculptor Bertoldo in Lorenzo de' Medici's famous sculpture garden near the convent of San Marco.

It was probably there that Bugiardini met the young Michelangelo, with whom he'd remain friends throughout his career.^[2] In the early 1490s, both artists joined the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio, where they were trained in the art of painting.

Bugiardini was an independent arti