page_title: Domenico Puligo
section_title: Portraits
hierarchical_section_title: Domenico Puligo / Early Works and Attributions / Portraits
context_page_description: Domenico Puligo was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active in Florence. His real name was Domenico di Bartolomeo Ubaldini.
  He trained under Ridolfo Ghirlandaio and acted as an assistant to Andrea del Sarto, whom he also became close friends with. Both Ghirlandaio and Sarto exerted heavy influences over Puligo that are evident in his works and style of painting. Puglio was also influenced by Jacopo Pontormo and Il Rosso. He rose to success as a portrait artist and was in high demand in Florence. His most renowned piece is possibly the large scale Vision of Saint Bernard altarpiece, now located in the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore. Some of his early works include the Virgin and Child with St. John as well as the Holy Family. About a dozen drawings are also attributed to Puligo but none relate to his surviving works or bear resemblance to the styles of his paintings. He is featured in Giorgio Vasari's Vite or Lives of the Artists. According to Vasari, Puligo was a particularly idle artist, which may explain the paucity of his productions. His brother, Jacone Puligo, was also a Renaissance painter.
context_section_description: Similarly to the conditions of Puligo's Madonna and Child Paintings, there are very few documented portrait paintings by Puligo, two of which are mentioned by Vasari. The only signed and dated portraiture work attributed to him Puligo is the Portrait of a Young Man Writing. The premise of this attribution rests upon its comparable stylistic qualities with other works by Puligo during the early 1520s, as only Puligo's first name, Domenico, is specified in a 1523 letter addressed to the artist by the sitter. This portrait has been said to have been influenced by Raphael's portrait of Tommaso Inghirami. The two portrait paintings that Vasari mentions are of Barbara Fiorentina and Pietro Cornesecchi. The latter is regarded by Vasari to be the most beautiful of his portraits and is now in the Uffizi Gallery.
  Three stages have been identified within Puligo's development as a portrait artist: the early period between around 1512–1517, the early mature period of about 1518–1523, and the mature period of about 1524–1527. As he progresses through the periods, he gains more expertise in his drawing skills, increasing the volume of figures and attending to physical details with more care. In what is considered as his mature period, Puligo's portraits often represented the figures in three-quarter length with great breadth, and sometimes in elongated form.
caption: Portrait of Pietro Cornesecchi. Oil on panel. 1527. Uffizi Gallery.
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