Scarsellino

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Expulsion of the merchants from the temple

Ippolito Scarsella called Scarsellino (* 1550 or 1551 in Ferrara ; † 1620 ibid) was an Italian painter in the mid-16th century and one of the most important representatives of the Ferranes school . His landscapes, with both sacred and secular themes, strongly anticipate the traditions of landscape painting of the 17th century.

Life

Nymphs in the bathroom

Ippolito Scarsella was born in Ferrara to the lesser known painter and architect Sigismondo Scarsella, known as Mondino, and Francesca Galvani. He and his two wives had seven children, but only two of them survived. Scarsellino traveled and worked all over Italy and came into contact with many influences.

He probably received his training from his father, of whom, however, very few paintings are known. At 17 he went to Bologna and then moved to Venice , where he lived for three years and attended Veronese's workshop and studied the Venetian painters. Scarsellino worked alongside the Carracci brothers in the Palazzo dei Diamanti (1592–93) in Ferrara.

After the death of his father in 1594, he took over his unfinished works and took on the role of head of the family. In 1610, after the death of his brothers, Scarsellino took over the guardianship of his nephew Francesco and trained him in painting. He completed one of his last works in February 1620 for Cardinal Alessandro d'Este in Tivoli. His will of March 26th shows that his nephew Francesco received 100 drawings from his estate. So he must have been a very prolific draftsman. However, these drawings are largely unknown.

The exact date of his death is not known; he was buried on October 28, 1620 in the church of Santa Maria di Bocche in Ferrara.

As can be seen from their works, the Ferrarese artist and the Bolognese painters influenced each other. To name just one of many examples: Ludovico Carracci was inspired for the martyrdom of Saint Margaret of 1616 for the Church of San Maurizio in Mantua was inspired by the version of the Ferrarese reformists for the Oratory of Saint Margaret in Ferrara five years earlier.

One of Scarsellino's most important students was Costanzo Cattani .

Work

Scarsellino was a panel painter as well as a fresco painter. He often painted the same subject in different variations, in different formats and on different carriers. His early works show the influences of various contemporary styles. Initially he was inspired by the elegant figures of Parmigianino (1503–1540), which were introduced in Ferrara by Girolamo da Carpi (1501 - approx. 1557). He later distinguished himself from this intellectual and highly formal vision of Mannerism by turning to the magical, atmospheric world of the Dosso Dossi . During his stay in Venice he got to know the late work of Giorgione and the works of Veronese and Titian , which had an important influence on his work.

Virgin and Child with the Saints Maria Magdalena, Peter, Clare, Francis and an abbess

A number of his works are in the collection of the Galleria Borghese in Rome, The Bathing Venus , Diana and Endymion and Venus and Adonis . Two of his paintings were destroyed in the bombing of Dresden at the end of World War II: Escape to Egypt and Holy Family at work .

Selected works

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scarsellino (Ippolito Scarsella), Nymphs in the Bath . at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
  2. ↑ a b Veronique Damien: Quatre nouveaux tableaux génois de Strozzi, Castiglione, Piola et Baciccio . Galerie Canesso, Paris 2013, p. 8-11 ( issuu.com ).
  3. ^ A b Ugo Ruggeri: Scarsellino . Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press ( oxfordartonline.com [accessed August 5, 2020]).
  4. ^ Luigi Ughi: Dizionario storico degli uomini illustri ferraresi . S. 123 (Italian, google.com ).

literature

  • Valentina Lapierre:  SCARSELLA, Ippolito, detto lo Scarsellino. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 91:  Savoia-Semeria. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2018.
  • Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill: The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries . National Gallery of Art, Washington 1986, p. 196-201 .
  • Sydney J. Freedberg: Painting in Italy, 1500–1600 . Ed .: Pelican History of Art. Penguin Books, 1993, p. 574-577 .
  • Girolamo Baruffaldi: Vita di Ippolito Scarsella, detto Scarsellino . A. Nobili, Bologna 1839 ( google.at ).
  • Valentina Lapierre: Scarsellino copista, tra devozione e collezionismo . In: Comune di Ferrara (ed.): MuseoinVita . No. 1 . Ferrara February 1, 2015 (Italian, museoinvita.it [accessed August 5, 2020]).

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personal data
SURNAME Scarsellino
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scarsella, Ippolito
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1550
PLACE OF BIRTH Ferrara
DATE OF DEATH 1620
Place of death Ferrara