# 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 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 (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

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 |
| | Allegorical Portrait of Parma Embracing Alessandro Farnese | oil | Italy - Parma - Galleria nazionale |
| external image | Allegory of the Immaculate Conception | drawing | France - Paris - Louvre |
| | Annunciation | oil on canvas | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte |
| external image | Bacchus | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum |
| | Christ as Judge on the Last Day | fresco | Italy - Parma - Cathedral |
| external image | Conversion of Saint Paul | oil on canvas | Italy - Mantua - Palazzo Ducale |
| external image | Female Caryatid | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum |
| external image | Head of a Woman | drawing | England - Cambridge - Fitzwilliam Museum |
| | Holy Family | oil on panel | Hungary - Budapest - Museum of Fine Arts |
| external image | Holy Family | oil on canvas | Denmark - Copenhagen - Statens Museum for Kunst |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | Infant Jesus and Saint John the Baptist | 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 |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | Portrait of a Tailor | oil on canvas | Italy - Naples - Museo di Capodimonte |
| external image | Portrait of a Young Man | oil | Austria - Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum |
| external image | Princes Praying | oil | England - Yorkshire - Castle Howard |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | 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 |
| external image | Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist and Saint James | drawing | France - Paris - Louvre |
| external image | Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Saint Sebastian and Saint Francis | oil on panel | Germany - Dresden - Gemäldegalerie |
| external image | Visitation | oil | Italy - Reggio Emilia - Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione |