Girolamo Da Carpi (1501 – 1 August 1556) was an Italian painter and decorator who worked at the Court of the

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. He began painting in Ferrara, by report apprenticing to

Benvenuto Tisi Benvenuto Tisi (or Il Garofalo) (1481September 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 ...

(il Garofalo); but by age 20, he had moved to Bologna, and is considered a figure of Early Renaissance painting of the local

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Career

He trained in the studio of a local painter who showed the influence of

Lorenzo Costa Lorenzo Costa (1460 – 5 March 1535) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. Biography He was born at Ferrara, but moved to Bologna by his early twenties, and was probably influenced by the Bolognese School. However, many artists worked in ...

and

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. In the 1520s Girolamo visited

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and

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and was inspired by the

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style of

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. Geographically and stylistically he straddles the various influences. He returned to Ferrara and collaborated with

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and Garofalo among others on commissions for the d’Este family. Girolamo became the architect to

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in 1550 and supervised the remodeling of the Vatican's

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. Returning to Ferrara, he was charged of the enlargements of the

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. Da Carpi's paintings include a ''Descent of the Holy Spirit'' in the church of St Francis at

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; a ''Madonna''; an ''Adoration of the Magi'' and a ''St. Catharine'' at Bologna; and a ''St George'' and ''St Jerome'' at Ferrara. Among the pupils of Girolamo da Carpi were Bartolomeo Faccini and

Ippolito Costa Ippolito Costa (1506 – 8 November 1561) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period. He was born in Mantua, the son of the painter Lorenzo Costa. Although not a pupil of Giulio Romano, his style closely imitated that master. He mentor ...

.Ticozzi, page 141.

Selected works

*''Landscape with Magical Procession'', (circa 1525, attr.);

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) *''Adoration of the Magi'', (1531;

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) *''Marriage of Saint Catherine'', (1532–34;

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) *''St. Longinus'', (1531) *''Pentecost'', (San Francesco,

) *''Opportunity and Remorse'', (1541; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

Notes

References

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External links

*Works by Girolamo da Carpi a
Census of Ferrarese Paintings and Drawings
Artists from Carpi, Emilia-Romagna 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Mannerist painters Italian decorators 1501 births 1556 deaths Painters from Ferrara {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub