Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli

Infant Christ with the Infant Saint John the Baptist

The Annunciation

Head of a Girl

Head of Bearded Man

The death of Lucretia

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

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

Name	Medium	Current Location
Adoration of the Kings ^[2]	oil on canvas	Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Benedict ^[3]	oil on panel	France - Paris - Louvre
Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese	oil	Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Allegory of the Immaculate Conception image	drawing	France - Paris - Louvre
Annunciation image	oil on canvas	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Bacchus image	drawing	England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Christ as Judge on the Last Day ^[4]	fresco	Italy - Parma - Cathedral
Conversion of Saint Paul image	oil on canvas	Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
Female Caryatid image	drawing	England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Head of a Woman image	drawing	England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Holy Family ^[5]	oil on panel	Hungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts
Holy Family image	oil on canvas	Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel image	drawing	U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels image	oil on panel	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Holy Family with Saints image	oil on panel	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Immaculate Conception		Italy - Parma - Cathedral
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist image	oil on panel	England - Royal Collection
Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist	oil	unknown (sold 2010 by Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist		Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale
Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate image	drawing	U.S.A. - Illinois - Chicago - Art Institute of Chicago
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria	oil on canvas	Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale
Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria		Italy - Parma - Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Pentecost		Italy - Parma - Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata
Portrait of a Boy of the Bracciforte Family image	oil	U.S.A. - Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery
Portrait of a Musician ^[6]	oil on panel	U.S.A. - Missouri - St. Louis - Saint Louis Art Museum
Portrait of a Tailor image	oil on canvas	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Portrait of a Young Man image	oil	Austria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum
Princes Praying image	oil	England - Yorkshire - Castle Howard
Putto Seated on a Frame image	drawing	U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Saint Clare image	oil on canvas	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Saint Mary Magdalene image	oil on panel	Italy - Florence - Palazzo Pitti
Saint Thecla image	drawing	Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Seated Man in a Niche with Violoncello image	drawing	Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte
Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework image	drawing	U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Study for the Virgin in the Steccata Pentecost image	drawing	Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
Virgin and Child image	drawing	England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child image	drawing	England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum
Virgin and Child in Landscape ^[7]	oil on panel	U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist image	oil on canvas	Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint James image	drawing	France - Paris - Louvre
Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis image	oil on panel	Germany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie
Visitation image	oil	Italy - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione

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

European Paintings:Keith Christiansen (1982) Notable Acquisitions (Metropolitan Museum of Art) p.39.
atlantedellarteitaliana.it
Joconde
Cathedral of Parma
Web Gallery of Art
Saint Louis Art Museum
Fogg Museum

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