Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 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. 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. 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 , was an undistinguished painter.
Selected works
Most of Bedoli's works are not signed. Many works are attributed to him based on style, but often these attributions are disputed. Among the works attributed to Bedoli are the following:| Image | Name | Medium | Current Location |
| Adoration of the Kings | oil on canvas | Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale | |
| Adoration of the Shepherds with Saint Benedict | oil on panel | France - Paris - Louvre | |
| :it:Parma abbraccia Alessandro Farnese|Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese | oil | Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale | |
| Allegory of the Immaculate Conception | drawing | France - Paris - Louvre | |
| Annunciation | oil on canvas | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Bacchus | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum | |
| Christ as Judge on the Last Day | fresco | Italy - Parma - Cathedral | |
| Conversion of Saint Paul | oil on canvas | Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale | |
| Female Caryatid | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum | |
| Head of a Woman | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum | |
| Holy Family | oil on panel | Hungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts | |
| Holy Family | oil on canvas | Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst | |
| Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and an Angel | drawing | U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum | |
| Holy Family with Saint John the Baptist and Angels | oil on panel | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Holy Family with Saints | oil on panel | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Immaculate Conception | Italy - Parma - Cathedral | ||
| Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist | oil on panel | England - Royal Collection | |
| Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist | oil | unknown | |
| Martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist | Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale | ||
| Meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate | 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 | oil | U.S.A. - Rochester - Memorial Art Gallery | |
| Portrait of a Musician | oil on panel | U.S.A. - Missouri - St. Louis - Saint Louis Art Museum | |
| Portrait of a Tailor | oil on canvas | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Portrait of a Young Man | oil | Austria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum | |
| Princes Praying | oil | England - Yorkshire - Castle Howard | |
| Putto Seated on a Frame | drawing | U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Saint Clare | oil on canvas | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Saint Mary Magdalene | oil on panel | Italy - Florence - Palazzo Pitti | |
| Saint Thecla | drawing | Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana | |
| Seated Man in a Niche with Violoncello | drawing | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte | |
| Standing Female Figure and Ornamental Framework | drawing | U.S.A. - New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
| Study for the Virgin in the Steccata Pentecost | drawing | Italy - Milan - Pinacoteca Ambrosiana | |
| Virgin and Child | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum | |
| Virgin and Child | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum | |
| Virgin and Child in Landscape | oil on panel | U.S.A. - Massachusetts - Cambridge - Fogg Museum | |
| Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist | oil on canvas | Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst | |
| Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint James | drawing | France - Paris - Louvre | |
| Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis | oil on panel | Germany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie | |
| Visitation | oil | Italy - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione |