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Pupini [dalle Lame; de’ Pini; Pini], Biagio
(b Bologna; fl 1511–51). Italian painter and draughtsman. He was probably a pupil of Francesco Francia. In 1511 he collaborated with Bagnacavallo on frescoes (destr.) in S Pietro in Vincoli, Faenza, and in 1519 on a stained-glass window for the Cappella della Pace, S Petronio, Bologna. In 1524 Pupini painted the Virgin and Child with Saints—a copy of Raphael’s Holy Family (Paris, Louvre)—in the upper cloister of the Collegio di Spagna, Bologna. In 1525 he participated, with Girolamo da Carpi and Giovanni Borghese, in the decoration of the sacristy of S Michele in Bosco, Bologna. Thereafter he produced works that have Ferrarese elements and echoes of Parmigianino, evidently also influenced by the works of Girolamo da Carpi, as in the Nativity (Bologna, Pin. N.), the Virgin and Child with Saints (Baltimore, MD, Walters A.G.) and the Virgin and Child with Saints (Bologna, S Giuliano). In 1536 Pupini worked with Girolamo da Carpi, Garofalo, Battista Dossi, Camillo Filippi and others on the decoration of the Este Villa at Belriguardo. In 1539 he was again in Bologna. His altarpiece depicting the Virgin and Child with Saints and three predella scenes for Fabriano Cathedral were executed in 1545. Shortly afterwards he painted St Ursula and her Companions for S Giacomo, Bologna. Pupini was a prolific draughtsman. His numerous drawings, influenced by Polidoro da Caravaggio and Parmigianino, are characterized by a technique that combines watercolour with white lead highlights and by a swift, sfumato brushstroke. He is last documented in 1551.
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