Sebastiano Filippi (or Bastianino; ca. 1536 – 23 August 1602) was an Italian late

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Mannerist Mannerism, which may also be known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Ita ...

painter of the School of Ferrara.

Biography

Bastianino Giudizio Universale cattedrale Ferrara

He was born in

Lendinara Lendinara is a ''comune'' in the province of Rovigo, Veneto, northern Italy. It is part of the historical and geographical region of Polesine. It is the birthplace of Domenico Montagnana (1680–1750), one of the world's finest violin and ce ...

to a painter,

Camillo Filippi Camillo Filippi (died 1574) was an Italian painter who flourished about the middle of the 16th century. Biography Filippo was born in Ferrara. He was a disciple of Dosso Dossi, and painted historical works with some success. The ''Annunciation' ...

, who had worked under

Dosso Dossi Giovanni di Niccolò de Luteri, better known as Dosso Dossi ( 1489–1542), was an Italian Renaissance painter who belonged to the School of Ferrara, painting in a style mainly influenced by Venetian painting, in particular Giorgione and early T ...

. He initially likely apprenticed with his father and brother ( Cesare Filippi), and is thought to have worked with them when they painted a processional standard ''Gonfalone'' for the ''Oratorio dell'Annunziata'' in Ferrara. He left Ferrara, dominated by the likes of Dosso Dossi,

Il Garofalo Benvenuto Tisi (or Il Garofalo) (1481September 6, 1559) was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este. His early works have been described as "idyllic ...

, and

Girolamo da Carpi Girolamo Da Carpi (1501 – 1 August 1556) was an Italian painter and decorator who worked at the Court of the House of Este in Ferrara. He began painting in Ferrara, by report apprenticing to Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo); but by age 20, he had ...

, as a young man to find work in Rome. In Rome, he is said to have been recommended by Jacopo Bonacossi, the Ferrarese doctor of the Pope, to enter training with Michelangelo. He worked for seven years under the master in Rome, then returned to Ferrara in 1553, where he enjoyed the general patronage of the arts by Duke

Alfonso I d'Este Alfonso d'Este (21 July 1476 – 31 October 1534) was Duke of Ferrara during the time of the War of the League of Cambrai. Biography He was the son of Ercole I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara and Eleanor of Naples and became duke on Ercole's death i ...

and subsequently his son Alfonso II. He painted a ''Madonna with Peter and Paul'' for the church of Vigarano. In the

Castello Estense The ' (‘ Este castle’) or ' (‘St. Michael's castle’) is a moated medieval castle in the center of Ferrara, northern Italy. It consists of a large block with four corner towers. History On 3 May 1385, the Ferrarese people, driven to des ...

, along with his father and brother he frescoed somewhat whimsical depictions of games in the ''Salone dei Giochi'Saletta dei Giochi'', and ''Sala dell'Aurora''. He is said to have collaborated with Leonardo Brescia in this assignment. He painted a ''Circumcision'' and an ''Annunciation'' for the church of San Agostino, Ferrara. His 1565 painting, ''Birth of the Virgin'', recalls the canvas of Andrea del Sarto. He painted large altarpieces for the Certosa of Ferrara, ''Vision of Saint Paul'' for Massa Lombarda, and ''Madonna and Child with Saints and Patrons'' in

Rovigo Rovigo (, ; egl, Ruig) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of Northeast Italy, the capital of the eponymous province. Geography Rovigo stands on the low ground known as Polesine, by rail southwest of Venice and south-southwest of P ...

in 1565. He painted a fresco of '' Last Judgment'', highly imitative of Michelangelo, for both the carthusian church St. Christophorus (1578) and for the

apse In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an '' exedra''. ...

roof of

Ferrara Cathedral Ferrara Cathedral ( it, Basilica Cattedrale di San Giorgio, ''Duomo di Ferrara'') is a Roman Catholic cathedral and minor basilica in Ferrara, Northern Italy. Dedicated to Saint George, the patron saint of the city, it is the seat of the Archb ...

(1577–1581). He is said to have become blind late in life. His local prominence by then was shared with the painter Scarsellino. The painter Bartolomeo Faccini is said to have been his pupil in Ferrara,Abecedario de P.J. Mariette: et autres notes inédites de cet amateur sur les Arts et les Artistes, Volume 4
by Pierre Jean Mariette, Philippe de Chennevières, Anatole de Montaiglon; Publisher: JB Dumoulin, Quai des Agustins #13, Paris; 1857–1858; page 230. though others assign him as a pupil of

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References

External links

Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawing

{{DEFAULTSORT:Filippi, Sebastiano 1530s births 1602 deaths People from the Province of Rovigo 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Ferrara Mannerist painters Year of birth uncertain