Reimagining: Faith, Hope and Love
2020-2024
Deborah Lanino
2023
Love I
24" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
2023
The Golden Rule II
24" x 24"
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
2023
The Well
Acrylic on canvas
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Catalog Cover
Bernardino Lanino
Vercelli, Italy
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Renaissance Resonances
"This is a project that I have wanted to do since graduating from Pratt Institute in 1986, when I studied a semester abroad at SACI (1985), in Florence, Italy and saw the exhibition of Bernardino Lanino in Vercelli. (catalog pictured) These works are now emerging in abstract and impressionistic paintings inspired by themes such as Faith, Hope and Love that reflect a contemporary view of traditional subject matter seen in Renaissance art. I use techniques such as chiaroscuro (lights and darks) and sfumato (blurring the edges) with a soft misty style, much like the workshop of my ancestor Bernardino Lanino (1512-1582) Vercelli, Italy."
-Deborah Lanino
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Bernardino Lanino - 1512- 1583
"After training locally with a little-known artist, Bernardino Lanino was associated with Vercelli's most important painter from 1530. Three years later he had already reached the rank of master painter. His early work displays his teacher's gentle figure style and delicate effects, but Lanino added his own soft, misty brushstrokes. After his teacher left to establish himself in Milan, Lanino became the region's leading painter. Between 1540 and 1560, Lanino made several visits to Milan, creating altarpieces and frescoes. There he absorbed the strong influence of Leonardo da Vinci's chiaroscuro. During this period Lanino made many of his finest drawings, creating startling chiaroscuro effects using black chalk and white bodycolor heightening on brown prepared paper. He often used pen and wash with white highlights in his accomplished compositional studies. Throughout the 1560s and 1570s, patrons eagerly sought Lanino's paintings, and his workshop was amazingly prolific. Examples of his soft style spread throughout the eastern Piedmont and Milan, and his sons also became painters in Vercelli." (The Getty Center)
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Doves
Symbols in Renaissance Art
Throughout the centuries doves have appeared as symbols in numerous religious and secular settings but may be best known for its wide use in Christianity. Renaissance artists, such as Bernardino Lanino, utilized doves primarily in religious artwork to depict the third element of the trinity, the Holy Spirit. Shown above the figures in the painting, as seen in the painting on the right, wings spread and often in a burst of light gives the dove an ethereal appearance, indicating its religious significance. Painting: Baptism of Christ - Bernardino Lanino
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Deborah Lanino
2019
Dove 1
18" x 36"
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
Dove II
12" x 12"
Acrylic on canvas
The Cross
Deborah Lanino’s Greek Cross series features abstract paintings that evoke contemplation, transcendence and spirituality. This series of paintings signifies hope for a better future and the possibility for change. When times are dark, there is a tendency to want to just give up. Remember from history that the Dark Ages led to the Renaissance. This series was painted during the pandemic and it signifies hope for a better future. In these works, there is a composition based on the Greek Cross, that is orderly where priority is given to the whole over it's parts giving the work a sense of unity. These original paintings are inspired by themes such as Faith, Hope and Love. This series of grid paintings uses old masters techniques such as chiaroscuro, glazing and sfumato, and are painted with a contemporary palette and design that invites the viewer to find beauty, hope and positivity in everyday moments.
Architectural plan of the Greek Cross Design.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:13
Greek Cross I
40" x 40"
Acrylic on canvas
Greek Cross III
38" x 38"
Acrylic on canvas
Greek Cross II
38" x 38"
Acrylic on canvas
Greek Cross IV
38" x 38"
Acrylic on canvas
Tree of Life
38" x 38"
Acrylic on canvas
Angels
Artists of the Renaissance era painted characters called "putti," which looked like male babies or toddlers. These characters represented the presence of pure love around people and often sported wings like angels. Glory to God.
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Bernardino Lanino
1540
Three Musician Angels Beneath a Canopy​
Fresco transferred to canvas
National Museum of Science and Technology
Milan, Italy
Deborah Lanino
2018
Glory to God.
8" x 10"
Musician Angel I
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Three Musician Angels
10" x 10"
Acrylic on board
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Three Musician Angels II
9" x 12"
Acrylic on Paper (SOLD - Private Collection)
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Musician Angel.
(After the Angel in Madonna and Child Enthroned 1552 Bernardino Lanino North Carolina Museum of Art)
9" x 12"
Acrylic on Paper
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Little Musician Angel
(After the Angel in Madonna and Child Enthroned Bernardino Lanino)
11" x 14
Acrylic on Canvas Panel
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Bernardino Lanino Workshop
Possibly Pietro Francesco Lanino
1512-1583
Due Teste di Angeli
Turin, Biblioteca Reale
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Two Angels in Brown and Pink.
9” x 12”
Acrylic on paper
Featured art in the Berkeley Art & Interreligious Pilgrimage Project - The Graduate Theological Union. GTU
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Glory to God. Two Blue Angels.
9” x 12”
Acrylic on paper
Contemporary Guadenzian style
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Madonna
These works are inspired by the blessed mother and the love of the madonna and child.
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Bernardino Lanino
1512-1583
Testa Femminile
Charcoal on paper
Deborah Lanino
2020
Testa Femminile II
8” x 10”
Gouache on paper
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Deborah Lanino
2020
Testa Femminile III
20" x 20"
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
2020
Madonna with a Yellow Rose
20" x 23"
Acrylic on canvas
Bernardino Lanino
1512-1583
Madonna
Charcoal on paper
Deborah Lanino
2019
Grace
30" x 40"
Acrylic on canvas
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Madonna II
9” x 12”
Acrylic on paper
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Deborah Lanino
2019
Grace
Acrylic on canvas
Deborah Lanino
2021
Head of a Saint
9 x 12
Acrylic and chalk on paper
Contemporary Guadenzian style
Deborah Lanino
2021
Madonna and child I
11" x 14"
Acrylic on panel
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Deborah Lanino
2021
Madonna and child II
8" x 10"
Acrylic on panel
Spirit
Abstract art is an ideal vehicle for communicating spiritual realities for many reasons. It removes the viewer from the world they think they know and allows them to focus their contemplation on symbols, the experience of a work, or its meditative character.
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Bernardino Lanino
1512-1583
Triumph of Christ with Angels and Cherubs​
Oil on panel
38" x 48"
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Deborah Lanino
2020
Triumph of Christ with Angels I​
After Bernadino Lanino
9" x 12"
Gouache and colored pencil study on paper
Deborah Lanino
2021
Triumph of Christ with Angels II​
After Bernardino Lanino
18" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Deborah Lanino
2023
The Sower
18 x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas Board
Deborah Lanino
2023
The Mustard Tree
8" x 10"
Acrylic on Canvas Board
Deborah Lanino
2022
Love I
24" x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Deborah Lanino
2023
The Well​
Acrylic on Canvas Board
Deborah Lanino
2023
The Golden Rule
24 x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Deborah Lanino
2024
Faith, Hope and Love
24 x 24"
Acrylic on Canvas
Deborah Lanino
2024
The Narrow Path
24 x 30"
Acrylic on Canvas
Deborah Lanino
2024
The Vine and the Branches
20"
Acrylic on Canvas