Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese, Galleria Nazionale di Parma.

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. For 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 canvasItaly - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Benedict [3]oil on panelFrance - Paris - Louvre
Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro FarneseoilItaly - Parma - Galleria nazionale
external imageAllegory of the Immaculate ConceptiondrawingFrance - Paris - Louvre
Annunciation
oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
external imageBacchusdrawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Christ as Judge on the Last Day [4]frescoItaly - Parma - Cathedral
external imageConversion of Saint Pauloil on canvasItaly - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
external imageFemale Caryatid
drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
external imageHead of a Woman
drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Holy Family [5]oil on panelHungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts
external imageHoly Familyoil on canvasDenmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
external imageHoly Family with Saint John the Baptist and an AngeldrawingU.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels
oil on panelItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Holy Family with Saintsoil on panelItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Immaculate ConceptionItaly - Parma - Cathedral
external imageInfant Jesus and Saint John the Baptistoil on panelEngland - Royal Collection
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptistoilunknown (sold 2010 by Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Martyrdom of Saint John the EvangelistItaly - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
external imageMeeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden GatedrawingU.S.A. - Illinois - Chicago - Art Institute of Chicago
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandriaoil on canvasItaly - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of AlexandriaItaly - Parma - Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
PentecostItaly - Parma - Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata
external imagePortrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family
oilU.S.A. - Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery
Portrait of a Musician [6]oil on panelU.S.A. - Missouri - St. Louis - Saint Louis Art Museum
external imagePortrait of a Tailor
oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
external imagePortrait of a Young ManoilAustria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum
external imagePrinces PrayingoilEngland - Yorkshire - Castle Howard
external imagePutto Seated on a FramedrawingU.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saint Clare
oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Saint Mary Magdaleneoil on panelItaly - Florence - Palazzo Pitti
Saint ThecladrawingItaly - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Seated Man in a Niche with Violoncello
drawingItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
external imageStanding Female Figure and Ornamental Framework
drawingU.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Study for the Virgin in the Steccata Pentecost
drawingItaly - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Virgin and ChilddrawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
external imageVirgin and Child
drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child in Landscape [7]oil on panelU.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptistoil on canvasDenmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
external imageVirgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint JamesdrawingFrance - Paris - Louvre
external imageVirgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis
oil on panelGermany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie
external imageVisitation
oilItaly - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione

References

  • Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art (ed.). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 416–420.
  • Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief (1986). National Gallery of Art (ed.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Washington. p. 65. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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