Ludovico Mazzolino
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Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian Renaissance painter active in Ferrara and Bologna.
He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have studied under such as Lorenzo Costa, who also trained Dosso Dossi and Cosimo Tura, and came under the influence of Ercole Roberti. In 1521 he married Giovanna, the daughter of Bartolomeo Vacchi, a Venetian painter. Much of his work was commissioned by the duke Ercole I d'Este from Ferrara. Mazzolino was influenced by il Garofalo and Boccaccino. He is known for devotional cabinet pictures, in a style somewhat regressive, or primitive, relative to the modern classicism then emerging. For example, his Massacre canvas has a turbulent and cartoonish crowding.
[edit] Paintings at National Gallery, London
- Christ disputing with Doctors (1520-25)
- The Holy Family with Saint Francis
- Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery
- Christ disputing with the Doctors
- The Holy Family with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
- The Nativity
[edit] Works elsewhere
- The Tribute Money (Christ Church, Oxford)
- Massacre of the Innocents (1515-1520, Uffizi)
- Madonna with Sainy Antonio Abbot (1525, Chantilly)
- Circumcision (1526, Vienna)
[edit] External links
- (1986) in Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Washington: National Gallery of Art, pp. 144-146.
- Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books, pp. 404-405.
- This article incorporates text from the entry Lodovico_Mazzolini in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
