BORGOGNONE, Ambro gio di Stefano, also called AM BROGIO DA Fos SANO, or IL BERGOGNONE, a distinguished Italian (Lombard) painter: b. at or near Fossano about 1445; d. 1523. The best studies of his life and works are by L. Beltrami and G. Zappa, and the substance of their accounts is clearly restated in Thieme-Becker, (Vol. IV, pp. 358 60). The year of his birth is not known, the earliest notice of him being in the records of the Milan dei Pittori,D where his name appears as *magister* in 1481; and his painting dates from the same period, roughly speaking. His last signed work known to us, painted for the church at Ner viano and now in the Brera at Milan, is dated 1522. Shortly before that time the most ad mired of all the paintings by this *gentle and pious master'— the great apse fresco of the 'Coronation of the Virgin' in San Simplici ano, Milan, was created and this represents most perfectly and most nobly the old Lom bard art traditions. It has been customary for art critics to deny that Borgognone was at all subject to the influence of the contemporane ous Leonardo school; Zappa, however, finds in the figures of some of Borgognone's paintings (for example, the four pictures at Lodi repre senting scenes from the life of the Virgin intimations of precisely that influence, though in only a slight degree. But in general it may
be said that Borgognone held aloof from the newer art tendencies and preserved in his works the expression of deeply-felt religious experience, his spirituality contrasting with those manifestations of interest in physical charm which characterized much of the art of his time. During the years 1488 to 1494 or 95 Borgognone executed for the Certosa of Pavia a series of paintings only less famous than the San Simpliciano fresco. Consul his biog raphy by Bona (Fossano 1897).
BORGOGNONE, Jacopo Cortesi, or, more properly, JACQUES C.ourrots,— in Italian GIACOMO or JACOPO CORTES1- called Borgognone, French painter: b. Burgundy 1621; d. Rome 1675. He studied in Italy and painted there, probably with success, until • in the full flower of his virility, he went to live with the Jesuits at Rome' as P. T. Venturi writes in L'Arte (Vol. XIII, p. 216, Roma 1910). His name has been overlooked hitherto by the editors of other works of reference, even those devoted exclusively to artists and the fine arts.