Filippo Mazzola

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Altar of the Collegiate Church in Cortemaggiore
Filippo Mazzola, Portrait of a Musician, 1505

Filippo Mazzola (* around 1460 in Parma ; † 1505 there ) was an Italian Renaissance painter . He is the father of the much better known Mannerist painter Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino .

Life

Little is known about the life of Mazzola. The Mazzola family originally came from Pontremoli , but settled in Parma around 1305. Filippo's father was called Bartolomeo, his brothers Pier Ilario and Michele were also painters, of “little reputation” (Vasari), but after Filippo's early death they took care of his son Girolamo Francesco.

Filippo Mazzola became a student of the Cremonese painter Francesco Tacconi and then worked mainly in the region around Parma and Piacenza . On a trip to Venice he studied the works of his stylistic role models Antonello da Messina , Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini .

One of his largest and most important works is the altar in the collegiate church and basilica of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Cortemaggiore from 1499: On ten panel paintings in two rows lying one above the other are in the center Mary with the child (below) and St. Christopher (above) and eight other saints.

The painter died at the age of 45 during a plague epidemic .

Works

  • Mary with the child (Museo Civico, Padua)
  • Mary with the Child, Saints Francis and John the Baptist (1491, Galleria Nazionale , Parma)
  • Portrait of Alessandro de Richao (1491, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid)
  • Baptism of Jesus (1493, Parma Cathedral)
  • Mary with the Child and Two Saints (1494, National Gallery (London) )
  • Resurrection of Christ, copy of a picture by Giovanni Bellini (1497, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)
  • Altar by Cortemaggiore (1499, Collegiate Church of Cortemaggiore)
  • Pietà (1500, Museo di Capodimonte , Naples)
  • Portrait of a Man (1500, Lowe Art Museum, Miami)
  • Virgin Mary, venerated by Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Catherine of Siena (1502, Gemäldegalerie (Berlin) )
  • Conversion of Paul (1504, Galleria Nazionale, Parma)
  • Blessing Christ (1504, Raczynski Collection, now Wiekopolskie Museum, Poznan)
  • Mary with the Child and Saints Clare and Catherine (1504, Berlin State Museums )
  • Christ at the hostage column (1505, Galerie Strossmayer, Zagreb)
  • Portrait of a musician (1505?, Galleria Nazionale, Parma)

literature

  • Giorgio Vasari : Life of the most distinguished painters, sculptors and builders of Cimabue up to 1567 ; Register of terms in the original language; modernized translation; Image database with over 3600 works / new ed. by Daniel Kupper, Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89853-621-9
  • Fondation Federico Zeri, Filippo Mazzola e non Alvise Vivarini, in Diari di lavoro 1, 1971, pp. 54-58 (rééd .. in Giorno per giorno nella pittura, 1988, pp. 181-182).
  • Roberto Lasagni, Dizionario biografico dei Parmigiani, ed.PPS, Parma 1999

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personal data
SURNAME Mazzola, Filippo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1460
PLACE OF BIRTH Parma
DATE OF DEATH 1505
Place of death Parma