Filippo Mazzola was perhaps a pupil of Francesco Tacconi. He was an imitator of Giovanni Bellini (who had influenced Tacconi). Mazzola was the father of Parmigianino - a much greater painter.
Filippo Mazzola
active 1490; died 1505
Paintings by Filippo Mazzola
The Virgin with the Christ Child on her lap is flanked by two saints. On the left is an old bearded man, possibly Saint Jerome; he wears a ragged white robe tied around his waist with a belt made of a twisted olive branch. On the right is a younger man in the grey habit of an observant Franciscan...
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