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Bernardino del Castelletto (di Massa)
( fl Massa and Lucca, 1481–90). Italian painter. He was documented in Massa in 1481, and in 1490 he signed and dated a panel of the Virgin and Child with SS Sixtus and Peter (Lucca, Villa Guinigi), made for the church of Pomezzana in Versilia. Stylistically it shows the influence of both Lombard and Tuscan painting. The same characteristics, blended with certain Lucchese traits, are present in the Virgin and Child with Saints (Lucca, S Pietro a Vico), which has been dated to the last years of the 15th century (Ferretti, 1975). It would seem that the painter moved from Massa to Lucca and adapted his style to local taste. A Virgin and Child with Saints (Massa, Archbishop’s Chapel) is also attributed to Bernardino (Bertolini Campetti). This attribution has yet to be proved; the painting was formerly attributed to the Master of St Anastasio (Ferretti, 1975), the author of two triptychs, both of the Virgin and Child with Saints (Valle di Serchio, parish church of S Anastasio; Valle di Serchio, church of Vallico di Sotto), the latter dated 1471.
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