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

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of the

School of Ferrara The School of Ferrara was a group of painters which flourished in the Duchy of Ferrara during the Renaissance. Ferrara was ruled by the Este family, well known for its patronage of the arts. Patronage was extended with the ascent of Ercole d'Este I ...

Biography

Bastianino Giudizio Universale cattedrale Ferrara

He was born in Lendinara to a painter, Camillo Filippi, who had worked under Dosso Dossi. He initially likely apprenticed with his father and brother (

Cesare Filippi Cesare Filippi (1536 – after 1602) was an Italian painter. He was the younger son and pupil of Camillo Filippi. Cesare was born at Ferrara in 1536. He assisted his father and brother Sebastiano in their works, and excelled in painting heads and ...

), 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, and Girolamo da Carpi, 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 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

. 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 and subsequently his son Alfonso II. He painted a ''Madonna with Peter and Paul'' for the church of Vigarano. In the Castello Estense, 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 Andrea del Sarto (, , ; 16 July 1486 – 29 September 1530) was an Italian painter from Florence, whose career flourished during the High Renaissance and early Mannerism. He was known as an outstanding fresco decorator, painter of altar-pieces, ...

. 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 in 1565. He painted a fresco of ''

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'', highly imitative of

, for both the carthusian church St. Christophorus (1578) and for the apse 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 Arch ...

(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 Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo is a masculine Italian given name, the Italian equivalent of Bartholomew. Its diminutive form is Baccio. Notable people with the name include: * Abramo Bartolommeo Massalongo (1824–1860), Italian paleobotanist and liche ...

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 Girolamo da Carpi.

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Magazine Article

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