Girolamo da Carpi

Girolamo da Carpi, Girolamo also Sellari, (* 1501 in Ferrara, † 1556 ) was an Italian painter and architect of the Renaissance (School of Ferrara). He worked a lot in Ferrara for the Dukes out of the house Este.

He was the son of the painter Tommaso from Carpi, saddler ( Sellaio ) was called. It was after the life story da Carpi 's at Vasari a kind of sign painter. Since Carpi first went in Ferrara in the painting at Garofalo and then to Bologna. He also visited Rome and was influenced from Mannerism Parmigianino and Giulio Romano. Back in Ferrara he worked for the Dukes of Este, among others, as a fresco painter ( ducal palace in Ferrara, villas in Belriguardo and Copparo ), some with Dosso Dossi Battista Dossi and ( frescoes in the Villa Imperiale, Pesaro ).

He was also an architect and was given in 1550 by Pope Julius III. commissioned to renovate the Belvedere in the Vatican complex. In Ferrara, he led the expansion of the Castello Estense, designed the Palazzo Naselli - Crispi and the church of San Francesco.

In addition to religious and mythological subjects he painted portraits and images with fantastic landscapes.

One of his major works is the Assumption of the Virgin in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC ( Muzzarelli panel after the bottom of the screen pictured founder Julia Muzzarelli ). The Mary in Glory appears four saints of the Dresden Art Gallery has been missing since 1945. In Dresden are also other paintings by him ( opportunity and patience in 1541, Judith with the Head of Holofernes, Diana and Endymion, Ganymede, Venus drawn by swans shell), some with mythological content from the Palace of the Dukes of Ferrara. Further, in Bologna in San Martino an Adoration of the Magi ( 1531) and San Salvatore, the Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine ( 1532-34 ).

Gallery

Portrait of a gentleman

Ruggiero saves Angelica on the Hippogriff (after Ariosto Orlando Furioso ), El Paso Museum of Art

Bindo Altoviti

Ippolito de Medici and Mario Bracci

Alfonso II d' Este, Prado

Rape of Ganymede

Landscape with wizards