Benvenuto Tisi, Garofalo
Paintings
The Vision of Saint Augustine
God Blessing the Earth
Adoration of the Sheperds
Madonna with the Child
The Virgin and Child with Saints
Madonna in Glory and Holy Hones
Saint Lucy
Adoration of the Magi
Christ Washing the Disciples' Feet
Madonna and Child before a curtain a mountainous landscape beyond
Madonna and Child and Saint Jerome
The Holy Family
Madonna and Child
The Adoration of the Magi
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
A Pagan Sacrifice
An Allegory of Love
The Agony in the Garden
The Holy Family with Saints
The Madonna and Child enthroned with Saints
The Circumcision
The Virgin and Child with Saints
Benvenuto Tisi (or Il Garofalo) (1481 – September 6, 1559) was a Late-Renaissance-Mannerist Italian painter of the School of Ferrara. Garofalo's career began attached to the court of the Duke d'Este. His early works have been described as "idyllic", but they often conform to the elaborate conceits favored by the artistically refined Ferrarese court. His nickname, Garofalo, may derive from his habit of signing some works with a picture of a carnation (in Italian, garofano).
Biography
Early training
Born in Ferrara, Tisi is claimed to have apprenticed under Panetti and perhaps Costa and was a contemporary, and sometimes collaborator with Dosso Dossi. In 1495 he worked at Cremona under his maternal uncle Niccolò Soriano,[1] and at the school of Boccaccino, who initiated him into Venetian colouring. He may have spent three years (1509–1512), in Rome. This led to a stylized classical style, more influenced by Giulio Romano.
Invited by a Ferrarese gentleman, Geronimo Sagrato, to Rome, he worked briefly under Raphael in the decoration of the Stanza della Segnatura. From Rome family affairs recalled him to Ferrara; there Duke Alfonso I commissioned him to execute paintings, along with the Dossi, in the Delizia di Belriguardo and in other palaces. Thus the style of Tisi partakes of the Lombard, the Roman and the Venetian modes.[1]
He painted extensively in Ferrara, both in oil and in fresco, two of his principal works being the "Massacre of the Innocents" (1519), in the church of S. Francesco, and his masterpiece "Betrayal of Christ" (1524). For the former he made clay models for study and a clay figure. He continued constantly at work until in 1550 blindness overtook him, painting on all feast-days in monasteries for the love of God. He had married at the age forty-eight, and died at Ferrara on the 6th (or 16th) of September 1559, leaving two children.[1]
Madonna and Child and St Jerome, 1530, Dallas Museum of Art.
He was a friend of Giulio Romano, Giorgione, Titian and Ariosto; in a picture of "Paradise" he painted Ariosto between St Catherine and St Sebastian. In youth he was fond of lute-playing and also of fencing. He ranks among the best of the Ferrarese painters; his leading pupil was Girolamo da Carpi.
Mature works and assessment
Even his least successful works retain, amid their frigid and porcelain quality, a harmony which marks Venetian colouring. His youthful works include the "Boar Hunt" in the Palazzo Sciarra. Later, the "Knight's Procession" in the Palazzo Colonna in Rome — gave promise of an Italianate Cuyp, less commonplace, more romantic, and more refined than the Dutch artist.[2]
His youthful works include the Boar Hunt in the Palazzo Sciarra and the Virgin in the Clouds with Four Saints (1518) in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, considered one of his masterpieces. The Pietà (1527) in the Brera Gallery in Milan reveals an increasingly stylized treatment. The Madonna (1532) in the Modena Gallery is a charming picture; however, the large Triumph of Religion in the Atheneum at Ferrara has been described as a "bookish" affair, whose episodes are difficult to elucidate. Garofalo is one of the painters known and described by Vasari. From 1550 till his death Garofalo was blind.[2] In 1520, Girolamo da Carpi is said to have apprenticed in Garofalo's workshop, and worked with him in Ferrarese projects in the 1530–40.
Anthology of works
The Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena (c. 1500–1505) - National Gallery, London [1]
Adoration of the Child (1508–1509) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara
Adoration of the Magi (c. 1520–1530) - High Museum of Art, Atlanta [2]
Madonna and Child (1510) - Galleria dell'Arte Studiolo, Milan [3]
Neptune and Pallas (1512) - Art Gallery, Dresden [4]
Madonna delle Nuvole (1514) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1515–1530) - National Gallery, London [5]
Madonna del Baldacchino (1517) - National Gallery, London
The Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints William of Aquitaine, Clare, Anthony of Padua and Francis (1517–1518) - National Gallery, London [6]
The Vision of Saint Augustine (c. 1518) - National Gallery, London [7]
Massacre of the Innocents (1519) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara
The Holy Family with Saints John the Baptist, Elizabeth, Zacharias and (?) Francis (1520) - National Gallery, London [8]
The Agony in the Garden (1520s–1530s) - National Gallery, London [9]
Baptism of Christ (1520–1525) - Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama [10]
Madonna del Pilastro (1523) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara
Madonna Enthroned with Saints (1524) - Cathedral, Ferrara
A Pagan Sacrifice (1526) - National Gallery, London [11]
An Allegory of Love (c. 1527–1539) - National Gallery, London [12]
Annunciation (1528) - Musei Capitolini, Rome [13]
Madonna Enthroned with Saints (1532) - Modena
Madonna in Glory (1532) - Musei Capitolini, Rome
Raising of Lazarus (1534) - Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara
The Miracle of the Swine (c. 1535) – Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Christ and the Samaritan Woman (1536) [14]
The Triumph of Bacchus (1540 finished by Garofalo, from unfinished 1517 draft by Raffael) - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
Blessing of Saint John the Baptist (1542) - San Salvatore, Bologna
Conversion of Saint Paul (1545)- Galleria Borghese, Rome
Annunciation (1550) - Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Holy Family - Musee de Angers [15]
Holy Family [16]
Jesus in the Orchard [17]
Madonna and Child Enthroned - Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin.
Madonna Enthroned with Saints [18]
Madonna with Saint John and Saint Elisabeth - Courtauld Institute, London [19]
Mars, Venus and Cupido - Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków
St Sebastian - Museo di Capodimonte, Naples [20]
Washing feet of Christ - National Gallery, Washington DC [21]
Notes
Chisholm 1911.
Gillet 1913.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tisio, Benvenuto". Encyclopædia Britannica 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gillet, Louis (1912). "Benvenuto Tisio da Garofalo". In Herbermann, Charles. Catholic Encyclopedia 14. Robert Appleton Company.
Freedberg, Sydney J. (1993). Pelican History of Art, ed. Painting in Italy, 1500–1600. Penguin Books.
Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief) (1986). National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, ed. The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries. pp. 141–43.
Dosso Dossi, Garofalo, and the Costabili Polyptych: Imaging Spiritual Authority, The Art Bulletin, June, 2000 by Giancarlo Fiorenza pp. 252–279
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