Ludovico Mazzolino

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

Biography

He was born and died in Ferrara. He appears to have studied under such as Lorenzo Costa, who also trained Dosso Dossi and Cosimo Tura, 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 from Ferrara. Mazzolino was influenced by il Garofalo 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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  Circumcision

• Ludovico Mazzolino - Christ before Pilate - WGA14719.jpg

  Christ before Pilate

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  The Holy Family in a landscape

• Ludovico Mazzolino - Madonna and Child with Saints - WGA14717.jpg

  Madonna and Child with Saints

Works elsewhere

• Christ disputing with Doctors (1520–25) (Gemaeldegalerie, Berlin)
• The Tribute Money (Christ Church, Oxford)
• Massacre of the Innocents (1515–1520, Uffizi)
• Madonna and Child with St Joseph (1522) (rediscovered September, 2009, Cheltenham, UK)
• Madonna with Sainy Antonio Abbot (1525, Chantilly)
• Circumcision (1526, Vienna)
• Christ Purging the Temple (c. 1527) (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, UK)
• The Holy Family in a Landscape (Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany)

External links

• Works by Lodovico Mazzolino at National Gallery in London
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