MAZZOLA, GIROLAMO, born at Moile, near Parma (1520-80). Lombard school; sometimes called Il Mazzolino. According to Lanzi, he was son of Michele Mazzola, but Zani says his real name was Bedolo, and that he took the name of Mazzola on marrying the daughter of Pier Hilario Mazzola, brother of Michele. He was therefore cousin, or cousin by marriage, of Parmigianino, of whom he was the favourite pupil. He had a great reputation in Parma and painted many pictures for its churches. Among his works are: Adoration of the Magi, Louvre, Paris; Madonna and Kneeling St. George, an allegory, Dresden Gallery; Miracle of the Loaves, fresco, Mantua.—Lanzi, ii. 406; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde; Zani, sub Bedolo.
MAZZOLINO, IL. See Mazzola, Girolamo.
MAZZOLINO, LODOVICO, born in Ferrara
about 1478 (?), died there towards the
end of 1528. Lombardo-Ferrarese school;
son of Giovanni Mazzuoli; called Malino
by Vasari; supposed pupil of Lorenzo Costa,
but more probably of Domenico Panetti.
Did not excel in large figures, but his small
pictures are bright in colour and possess
rare merit. Examples: Christ with the
Doctors, Palazzo Borghese, Rome; do., Palazzo
Doria, ib.; do., Uffizi, Florence; Adoration
of the Magi, Ferrara Gallery; Holy
Family, Triptych with Madonna Enthroned
(1509), Christ with the Doctors (1524), Berlin
Museum; Christ and the Pharisees (1524);
Raczynski Gallery, ib.; Ecce Homo, Dresden
Museum; Holy Family (2, one dated
1516), Old Pinakothek, Munich; Pietà
(1526), Hermitage, St. Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Circumcision (1526), Vienna Museum;
Holy Family, Louvre; Massacre of
the Innocents (1548), Hague Museum; Holy
Family with Saints Adoring (2), Woman
taken in Adultery, National Gallery, London;
St. Jerome, Historical Society, New
York.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 139; Lanzi, iii.
193; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise; Cittadella,
Doc. etc., art. ferrarese (Ferrara,
1868); Burckhardt, 691; Kugler (Eastlake),
i. 226; Lübke, Gesch. d. ital. Mal., ii. 391.
MAZZUCHELLI, PIERFRANCESCO.
See Morazzone.
MAZZUOLA, FILIPPO, called dell' Erbette,
of Parma, died in 1505. Lombard
school; father of Francesco Mazzola, called
Parmigianino. His style may be seen in his
Virgin and Child, dated 1491, in the Parma
Gallery; his Baptism of Christ, 1493, in the
Episcopal Palace, Parma; and his Dead
Christ, 1500, in the Naples Museum. His
figures are ill-drawn and stiff, his tempera is
raw and of a sad gray tone, and he shows
no knowledge of perspective. His Madonna,
in the Berlin Museum, exhibits more
study and better forms.—C. & C., N. Italy,
i. 585; Burckhardt, 587; Lübke, Gesch.
ital. Mal., i. 485.
MAZZUOLI, GIUSEPPE, of Ferrara, died
there about 1589. Lombard school; commonly
called Il Bastaruolo (grain-seller) from
his father's business. Probably pupil of
Surchi, who was a scholar of the Dossi.
Lanzi calls him a learned, graceful, and correct
artist. His works are mostly in Ferrara;
e.g., Circumcision, S. Barbara.—Lanzi,
iii. 209; Ch. Blanc, École ferraraise.
MECHAU, JAKOB WILHELM, born at
Leipsic, Jan. 16, 1745, died in Dresden,
March 14, 1808. Landscape painter, pupil
in Berlin of Bernhard Rode and of Le Sueur,
and in Dresden of Casanova; went in 1776
to Rome, where he took Claude Lorrain and
Philipp Hackert for his models; returned
home in 1780 and became a member of Leipsic
Academy; went to Rome again in 1790,
and after the expulsion of the Pope settled in
Dresden. Works: View of Rome, Dresden
Museum; Abraham entertaining the angels,
Christiania Gallery; Castel Gandolfo; View
on Tiber with Cincinnatus ploughing; Albinus
offering his Chariot to the Retreating
Gauls; six scenes from life of Abraham;
Flight into Egypt.—Goethe, Winckelmann,
ii. 173; Meusel, ii. 28; Nagler, viii. 527.
MECHERINO. See Beccafumi.
