Girolamo da Carpi

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Girolamo da Carpi , also Girolamo Sellari, (* 1501 in Ferrara ; † 1556 ibid) was an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance ( School of Ferrara ). He worked a lot in Ferrara for the Este dukes .

Patience and Opportunity, 1541, Gemäldegalerie Dresden

He was the son of the painter Tommaso from Carpi, who was called the saddler (Sellaio). According to the life story of da Carpis with Vasari, he was a kind of sign painter. Da Carpi first trained as a painter with Garofalo in Ferrara and then went to Bologna. He also visited Rome and was influenced by the mannerism of Parmigianino and Giulio Romano . Back in Ferrara he worked for the Dukes of Este as a fresco painter (Ducal Palace in Ferrara, villas in Belriguardo and Copparo), partly with Dosso Dossi and Battista Dossi (frescoes in the Villa Imperiale in Pesaro ).

Image in Vasari's painter biographies 1568

He was also an architect and received from Pope Julius III in 1550 . the order to renovate the Belvedere complex in the Vatican. In Ferrara he directed the expansion of the Castello Estense, designed the Palazzo Naselli-Crispi and the Church of San Francesco.

In addition to religious and mythological subjects, he painted portraits and pictures with fantastic landscapes.

One of his main works is the Assumption of Mary in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC ( Muzzarelli plaque after the donor Julia Muzzarelli pictured below). The Mary in Glory appears four saints of the Gemäldegalerie Dresden has been missing for the 1945th In Dresden there are also other paintings by him (opportunity and patience 1541, Judith with the head of Holofernes, Diana and Endymion, Ganymede, Venus in a shell pulled by swans), some with mythological content from the palace of the dukes of Ferrara. There is also an Adoration of the Magi (1531) in Bologna in San Martino and the Mystical Wedding of Saint Catherine (1532–34) in San Salvatore .

gallery

  • Bust of a Johanniter from (1526/27)

  • Saint George killing the dragon

  • Portrait of a nobleman

  • Portrait of a nobleman

  • Ruggiero saves Angelica on the Hippogryph (after Ariost Orlando Furioso ), El Paso Museum of Art

  • Bindo Altoviti

  • Ippolito de Medici and Mario Bracci

  • Alfonso II d'Este, Prado

  • Robbery of Ganymede

  • Landscape with magicians

literature

  • A. Ghidiglia Quintavalle, in Kindler's Malereilexikon, dtv 1982
  • A. Serafini Girolamo da Carpi , Rome 1915

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SURNAME Girolamo da Carpi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter and architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1501
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH 1556
Place of death Ferrara