Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
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Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (c. 1500–1569) was an Italian
painter
of the Parmesan school of Painting, active in the Mannerist style
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Bedoli was born in Parma
in a family coming from Viadana. He was a near contemporary of Parmigianino
, and after the early death of the latter master, he completed some frescoes initially commissioned to Parmigianino, for example in the apse of Santa Maria della Steccata. He is known to have worked in the studio of the latter's uncles in the city of Parma
. He married the daughter of Pier Ilaro Mazzola, a cousin of Parmigianino, hence he added to his name the better known Mazzola appellation.
He painted along with his father in law the Immaculate Conception for the Oratorio della Concezione (now in Parma Gallery). Freedberg describes him in his masterpiece of the Annunciation as resembling Parmigianino
in the same way Bronzino reflected the elder Pontormo, equal in skill and refinement, but lacking the original abstracting poetry of the image. The works are equal in polish, but stony in feeling. He produced murals, portraits, designed tombs, and altarpieces — the diverse uses probably trained him best as a decorative artist. His son, Alessandro Mazzola (1533–1608), was an undistinguished painter.
Italy
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painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
of the Parmesan school of Painting, active in the Mannerist style
Mannerism
Mannerism is a period of European art that emerged from the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520. It lasted until about 1580 in Italy, when a more Baroque style began to replace it, but Northern Mannerism continued into the early 17th century throughout much of Europe...
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Bedoli was born in Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
in a family coming from Viadana. He was a near contemporary of Parmigianino
Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...
, and after the early death of the latter master, he completed some frescoes initially commissioned to Parmigianino, for example in the apse of Santa Maria della Steccata. He is known to have worked in the studio of the latter's uncles in the city of Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
. He married the daughter of Pier Ilaro Mazzola, a cousin of Parmigianino, hence he added to his name the better known Mazzola appellation.
He painted along with his father in law the Immaculate Conception for the Oratorio della Concezione (now in Parma Gallery). Freedberg describes him in his masterpiece of the Annunciation as resembling Parmigianino
Parmigianino
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola , also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma...
in the same way Bronzino reflected the elder Pontormo, equal in skill and refinement, but lacking the original abstracting poetry of the image. The works are equal in polish, but stony in feeling. He produced murals, portraits, designed tombs, and altarpieces — the diverse uses probably trained him best as a decorative artist. His son, Alessandro Mazzola (1533–1608), was an undistinguished painter.
Selected works
- Adoration of the Child, (Capodimonte Museum, Naples)
- Annunciation, (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
- Madonna with Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis, (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)
- The Marriage of Saint Catherine, (Galleria Nazionale di Parma)
- Adoration of the Kings, (Gallery, Parma)
- Christ as Judge on the Last Day, (Fresco in apse, Parma Cathedral)
- Madonna and Child in Landscape, (Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
- Immaculate Conception
- Jesus and St John the Baptist (c. 1535)http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=18225&type=101
- Pentecost