Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli (c. 1500–1569) was an Italian painter active in the Mannerist style.

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

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
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception
image		drawingFrance - Paris - Louvre
Annunciation
image		oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Bacchus
image		drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Christ as Judge on the Last Day [4]frescoItaly - Parma - Cathedral
Conversion of Saint Paul
image		oil on canvasItaly - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
Female Caryatid
image		drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Head of a Woman
image		drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Holy Family [5]oil on panelHungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts
Holy Family
image		oil on canvasDenmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel
image		drawingU.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels
image		oil on panelItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Holy Family with Saints
image		oil on panelItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Immaculate ConceptionItaly - Parma - Cathedral
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist
image		oil 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
Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate
image		drawingU.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
Portrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family
image		oilU.S.A. - Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery
Portrait of a Musician [6]oil on panelU.S.A. - Missouri - St. Louis - Saint Louis Art Museum
Portrait of a Tailor
image		oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Portrait of a Young Man
image		oilAustria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum
Princes Praying
image		oilEngland - Yorkshire - Castle Howard
Putto Seated on a Frame
image		drawingU.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saint Clare
image		oil on canvasItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Saint Mary Magdalene
image		oil on panelItaly - Florence - Palazzo Pitti
Saint Thecla
image		drawingItaly - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Seated Man in a Niche with Violoncello
image		drawingItaly - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework
image		drawingU.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Study for the Virgin in the Steccata Pentecost
image		drawingItaly - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Virgin and Child
image		drawingEngland - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child
image		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 Baptist
image		oil on canvasDenmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint James
image		drawingFrance - Paris - Louvre
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis
image		oil on panelGermany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie
Visitation
image		oilItaly - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione
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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.

Notes
  1. European Paintings:Keith Christiansen (1982) Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) p.39.
  2. atlantedellarteitaliana.it Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Joconde
  4. Cathedral of Parma
  5. Web Gallery of Art
  6. Saint Louis Art Museum
  7. Fogg Museum


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