Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) - also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese - was an Italian

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painter active in

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and

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Biography

He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have studied under such as

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, who also may have trained

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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

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from

. 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

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Works elsewhere

*''Christ disputing with Doctors'' (1520–25) ( Gemaeldegalerie,

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) *''The Tribute Money'' (Christ Church, Oxford) *''Massacre of the Innocents'' (1515–1520,

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) *''Madonna and Child with St Joseph'' (1522) (rediscovered September, 2009,

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, UK) *''Adoration of the Shepherds'' (c. 1524)

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) *''Madonna with Sainy Antonio Abbot'' (1525, Chantilly) *''Circumcision'' (1526, Vienna) *''Christ Purging the Temple'' (c. 1527) (

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, UK) *''The Holy Family in a Landscape'' (

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External links

Works by Lodovico Mazzolino at National Gallery in London
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