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LODOVICO MAZZOLINI

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(Also known as MAZZOLINI DA FERRARA, LODOVICO FERRARESA, and IL FERRARESE)

Italian painter, b. in Ferrara in 1480, d., according to one account, in 1528,
and to another, in 1530; place of death unknown. This artist is generally
represented as having been a pupil of Lorenzo Costa, and has having come under
the influence of Ercole Roberti, but should be more correctly described as a
pupil of Panetti. Morelli called him "the Glow-worm", "der Glühwurm", from his
brilliant gem-like colour and luminous sparkling quality, and he proved that
Mazzolini was a pupil of Panetti rather than Costa, by the form of the ear and
hand in his paintings, by his landscape backgrounds with deep conical blue
mountains and streaks of dazzling white, and by his scheme of colour. Comparing
Lorenzo Costa with Perugino, Morelli compares Panetti with Pintorrichio,
although he says as an artist the Perugian far surpassed the somewhat dry and
narrow-minded artist of Ferrara, but it is perfectly clear that it was to this
dry and so-called narrow-minded man that Mazzolini owed his excellent work. The
architectural backgrounds of his pictures are their specially distinctive
feature, and notably the creamy-toned marble. Attention should further be
directed to his use of gold in the high lights of his draperies.



Of his personal history we know nothing, save that he worked both in Ferrara and
Bologna, and that he married in 1521 Giovanna, the daughter of Bartolomeo
Vacchi, a Venetian painter. His most notable picture represents Christ disputing
with the doctors, is dated 1524, and to be seen at Berlin. It is in his pictures
with small figures that he displays the power of imparting pleasure, as his gift
was rather in the direction of genre than of historical painting, and to most
observers there is something curiously Flemish about his work. There is a second
important picture of his in Berlin, a Virgin and Child, two at the Louvre, one
in Ferrara, three in the National Gallery, and three in Florence, other examples
in Munich, and in various private collections. The chief work of his in England
is one belonging to Lord Wimborne. He is also represented in the galleries of
Turin, St. Petersburg, The Hague, and in the Capitol of Rome, the Doria, and the
Borghese.


SOURCES

BARUFFALDI GIROLAMO, Vite dei Pittori Ferraesi (Ferrara), in MS, also the Oretti
MS. (Bologna); ORLANDI, Abbecedario Pittorico (Bologna, 1719); VASARI, Le Vite
dei Pittori (Florence, 1878, 1885).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Williamson, G. (1911). Lodovico Mazzolini. In The Catholic
Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10095a.htm

MLA citation. Williamson, George. "Lodovico Mazzolini." The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10095a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Dennis P. Knight.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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