Adoration of the Magi

1522 · Private collection

religious

This is a characteristic example of Mazzolino's small-scale devotional works for private patrons, a genre in which he specialized. This panel is one of the very few dated works by the artist.

About the Artist

Ludovico Mazzolino

1480 – 1528

Ludovico Mazzolino (also Mazzuoli or Manzulin da Ferrera), Italian painter of the Ferrarese school. His close contacts with Ercole Roberti 's workshop are documented as are those with Boccaccio Boccaccino. His work also reflects the direct influence of Costa and the contacts with transalpine art. Later Raphaelesque tendencies, especially in his pictorial design, can be attributed to a period in Rome.

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