Alessandro Mazzola (c. 1546–1608) was an Italian painter, active in Parma in the late-

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Biography

Alessandro was born in

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli 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 deat ...

, who had married the daughter of Pier Ilaro Mazzola, a cousin of

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, ...

, hence added to his name the ''Mazzola'' surname. He painted figures in the spandrels and southern ceiling of the nave of the

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. Two portraits by him were found in the National Gallery. A ''Virgin Mary'' altarpiece in a left chapel and a ''Christ Ascended'' in the second chapel of the Steccata are attributed to him. A painting of ''St Francis of Assisi'' in the Oratory della Concezione is attributed to him. The main altarpieces for the churches of San Pietro and San Tomasso (''Birth of Christ'') are attributed to Alessandro.Dizionario biografico dei parmigiani illustri o benemeriti
by Giovanni Battista Janelli, (1876) page 258.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mazzola, Alessandro 1540s births 1608 deaths 16th-century Italian painters Italian male painters 17th-century Italian painters Painters from Parma Italian Renaissance painters