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Bartolomeo Schedoni (sometimes Schedone) (1578 – 23 December 1615) was an Italian early
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painter from
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.


Biography

He was born in
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, and moved to
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with his father, a mask-maker who served the Farnese court. In 1595 Schedoni traveled to Rome, where he apprenticed briefly under
Federico Zuccari Federico Zuccaro, also known as Federico Zuccari (c. 1540/1541August 6, 1609), was an Italian Mannerist painter and architect, active both in Italy and abroad. Biography Zuccaro was born at Sant'Angelo in Vado, near Urbino (Marche). His docum ...
with the sponsorship of
Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma Ranuccio I Farnese (28 March 1569 – 5 March 1622) reigned as Duke of Parma, Piacenza and Castro from 1592. A firm believer in absolute monarchy, Ranuccio, in 1594, centralised the administration of Parma and Piacenza, thus rescinding the no ...
.Miller, Dwight C. "Schedoni, Bartolomeo". ''Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online''. Oxford University Press. Web. After falling ill, he returned to Parma. The baroque art historian
Count Carlo Cesare Malvasia Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1616–1693) was an Italian scholar and art historian from Bologna, best known for his biographies of Baroque artists titled ''Felsina pittrice'', published in 1678. Life and career Malvasia is the Bolognese equivalent ...
(1616–1693) claims that Schedoni trained under
Annibale Carracci Annibale Carracci (; November 3, 1560 – July 15, 1609) was an Italian painter and instructor, active in Bologna and later in Rome. Along with his brother and cousin, Annibale was one of the progenitors, if not founders of a leading strand of th ...
in Bologna, although this is questionable; his early work reveals instead his study of
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's works in Parma. Schedoni's earliest known commission was in 1598. He left Parma after an imprisonment for assault, and relocated to Modena. There he served as painter to the court of Cesare d’Este, and collaborated with
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in decorating the ceiling of the Sala del Consiglio Vecchio of the Palazzo Comunale. After an interruption caused by Schedoni's imprisonment for another altercation, this work was completed in July 1607. After December 1607, he worked in Parma for the court of Ranuccio I. The duke greatly esteemed Schedoni, and gave him a farm at when Schedoni married in 1611. Schedoni's works included small devotional images and the large altarpiece ''Holy Family in Glory Worshipped by SS John the Baptist, Francis of Assisi, Lawrence and Peregrinus''. Schedoni died on 23 December 1615. According to the Modenese chronicler Giovanni Battista Spaccini, he died in a "fit of passion"—possibly a suicide—after a night of heavy gambling losses.


Style

Schedoni's paintings often depict brilliantly lit figures set against a dark background. Great emphasis is given to the angular patterns of brightly colored drapery, which, according to the art historian
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, "almost obscure the narrative content of the scene and instead disseminate a pervading sense of emotional emergency." Schedoni's late manner shows the influence of
Ludovico Carracci Ludovico (or Lodovico) Carracci (21 April 1555 – 13 November 1619) was an Italian, early-Baroque painter, etcher, and printmaker born in Bologna. His works are characterized by a strong mood invoked by broad gestures and flickering light th ...
. Another important influence on Schedoni's style and subjects was
Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...
, whose ''
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'' (1603–04) provided the prototype for Schedoni's ''Deposition'' (c. 1613) in the Galleria Nazionale of Parma.Zirpolo, Lilian H. (2010)
''Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture''
Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. 480. .
The Parmesan painter
Giovanni Lanfranco Giovanni Lanfranco (26 January 1582 – 30 November 1647) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography Giovanni Gaspare Lanfranco was born in Parma, the third son of Stefano and Cornelia Lanfranchi, and was placed as a page in the ho ...
was among those who found inspiration in Schedoni's theatrical style. Schedoni's masterpieces are in the Galleria Nazionale of Parma, and were the two paintings intended for the altar of the church of the Capuchin convent in
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, near Parma.


Selected works

*''Deposition'' (c. 1610),
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*''Charity'' (1611) *''Deposition'' (1613), Galleria Nazionale of Parma *''Saint Elizabeth Giving Alms to the Poor'' (1613, painted for the Ducal Palace in Parma, before being moved to Naples with the Farnese Collection in 1734 upon being inherited by Charles of Bourbon, then to Rome by the French from 1799 to 1832, before being returned to Naples, initially to the Museo Borbonico then in 1841 to the
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) *''Three Marys at the Tomb'' (c. 1613–14) *''Rest on the Flight to Egypt''


References


Sources

* * M. Horak and F. Obertelli, ''Opere di Bartolomeo Schedoni nel piacentino'', in "Panorama Musei", anno XXI, n. 1, aprile 2016


External links

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