Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian
Renaissance
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painter active in
Ferrara
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and
Bologna
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.
Biography
He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have studied under such as
Lorenzo Costa
Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
Biography
He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked i ...
, who also may have trained
Dosso Dossi
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, 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
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Biography
Ercole was born in ...
from
Ferrara
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. Mazzolino was influenced by
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
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.
The exact date, or even year, of his death is not known, but he died during a plague which devastated the area.
Paintings at National Gallery, London
*''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''
Selected works
File:Ludovico Mazzolino - Circumcision - WGA14715.jpg, Circumcision
File:Ludovico Mazzolino - Christ before Pilate - WGA14719.jpg, Christ before Pilate
File:Ludovico Mazzolino 001.jpg, The Holy Family in a landscape
File:Ludovico Mazzolino - Madonna and Child with Saints - WGA14717.jpg, Madonna and Child with Saints
Works elsewhere
*''Christ disputing with Doctors'' (1520–25) (
Gemaeldegalerie,
Berlin
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)
*''The Tribute Money'' (Christ Church, Oxford)
*''Massacre of the Innocents'' (1515–1520,
Uffizi
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)
*''Madonna and Child with St Joseph'' (1522) (rediscovered September, 2009,
Cheltenham
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,
UK)
*''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (c. 1524)
Ringling Museum
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Sarasota
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)
*''Madonna with Sainy Antonio Abbot'' (1525, Chantilly)
*''Circumcision'' (1526, Vienna)
*''Christ Purging the Temple'' (c. 1527) (
Alnwick Castle
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,
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land on ...
, UK)
*''The Holy Family in a Landscape'' (
Alte Pinakothek
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,
Munich
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,
Germany
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)
External links
Works by Lodovico Mazzolino at National Gallery in London*
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1480 births
1520s deaths
15th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
16th-century Italian painters
Painters from Ferrara
16th-century deaths from plague (disease)