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 painters as

. 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

• 
  Circumcision
• 
  Christ before Pilate
• 
  The Holy Family in a landscape
• 
  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,
  UK
  )
• Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1524)
  Sarasota
  )
• 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
• Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill, ed. (1986). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Washington: National Gallery of Art. pp. 144–146.
• Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Painting in Italy, 1500-1600. Penguin Books. pp. 404–405.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Lodovico Mazzolini". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.