Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese, Galleria Nazionale di Parma.
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Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (c. 1500–1569) was an Italian painter active in the Mannerist style.

Biography

Bedoli was born in Parma in a family coming from Viadana in Lombardy. He was a near contemporary of Parmigianino, and after the early death of the latter master, he completed some frescoes initially commissioned from Parmigianino. Ror example, he completed works in the apse of Santa Maria della Steccata.[1] He is known to have worked in the studio of the Parmigianino'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. Bedoli's 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 (painter) (1533–1608), was an undistinguished painter.

Selected works

Most of Bedoli's works are not signed. Many works are attributed to him based on style, but often these attributions are disputed. Among the works attributed to Bedoli are the following:

Image Name Medium Current Location
Adoration of the Kings [2] oil on canvas Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Benedict [3] oil on panel France - Paris - Louvre
Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese oil Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception
image 		drawing France - Paris - Louvre
Annunciation
image 		oil on canvas Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Bacchus
image 		drawing England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Christ as Judge on the Last Day [4] fresco Italy - Parma - Cathedral
Conversion of Saint Paul
image 		oil on canvas Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
Female Caryatid
image 		drawing England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Head of a Woman
image 		drawing England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Holy Family [5] oil on panel Hungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts
Holy Family
image 		oil on canvas Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel
image 		drawing U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels
image 		oil on panel Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Holy Family with Saints
image 		oil on panel Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Immaculate Conception Italy - Parma - Cathedral
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist
image 		oil on panel England - Royal Collection
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist oil unknown (sold 2010 by Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
image 		drawing U.S.A. - Illinois - Chicago - Art Institute of Chicago
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria oil on canvas Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria Italy - Parma - Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Pentecost Italy - Parma - Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata
Portrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family
image 		oil U.S.A. - Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery
Portrait of a Musician [6] oil on panel U.S.A. - Missouri - St. Louis - Saint Louis Art Museum
Portrait of a Tailor
image 		oil on canvas Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Portrait of a Young Man
image 		oil Austria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum
Princes Praying
image 		oil England - Yorkshire - Castle Howard
Putto Seated on a Frame
image 		drawing U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saint Clare
image 		oil on canvas Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Saint Mary Magdalene
image 		oil on panel Italy - Florence - Palazzo Pitti
Saint Thecla
image 		drawing Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Seated Man in a Niche with Violoncello
image 		drawing Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework
image 		drawing U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Study for the Virgin in the Steccata Pentecost
image 		drawing Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Virgin and Child
image 		drawing England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child
image 		drawing England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child in Landscape [7] oil on panel U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist
image 		oil on canvas Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint James
image 		drawing France - Paris - Louvre
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis
image 		oil on panel Germany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie
Visitation
image 		oil Italy - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione

References

Notes

  1. ↑ European Paintings:Keith Christiansen (1982) Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) p.39.
  2. ↑ atlantedellarteitaliana.it
  3. ↑ Joconde
  4. ↑ Cathedral of Parma
  5. ↑ Web Gallery of Art
  6. ↑ Saint Louis Art Museum
  7. ↑ Fogg Museum
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