Career
While he was nearly contemporary with Leonardo da Vinci, he painted in a style more akin to the pre-Renaissance, Lombard art of Vincenzo Foppa and Bernardino Zenale. The dates of his birth and death are unknown. He is said to have been born at Fossano in Piedmont and his appellation attributed to his artistic affiliation with the Burgundian school.
His fame is principally associated with his work at the Certosa di Pavia complex, composed of the church and convent of the Carthusians.
lieutenant is unlikely he designed, in 1473, the celebrated facade of the Certosa itself. Only one known picture, an altar-piece at the Basilica of Sant"Eustorgio, can with probability be assigned to a period of his career earlier than 1486.
Foreign two years after his return to Milan he worked at the church of San Satiro. From 1497 he was engaged for some time in decorating with paintings the church of the Incoronata in the neighboring Lodi.
Documentation of him thenceforth is scant.
In 1508 he painted for a church in Bergamo. In 1512, his signature appears in a public document of Milan. In 1524 - and this is our last authentic record - he painted a series of frescoes illustrating the life of Saint Sisinius in the portico of San Simpliciano at Milan.
Borgognone considered a modestly talented painter with marked individuality.
He holds an interesting place in the most interesting period of Italian art Bernardino Luini is said to have been one of his pupils.