Scarsellino

Scarsellino or Ippolito Scarsella (Ferrare, 1550 or 1551 - Ferrare, 1620) is a painter Italian mannerist of the school of Ferrare.

Biography

His/her father was Sigismondo Scarsella, painter with Ferrare.

He travelled everywhere to Italy and was subject to multiple influences in particular of the Venetian school and locally of Dosso Dossi.

He lived 4 years in Venice about 1570 without it being known if he were attached to any workshop.

He worked with the brothers Carracci with the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrare.

A great number of its works is with the Galerie Borghese of Rome: the Bath of Venus, Diane and Endymion, Venus and Adonis

The bombardment of Dresden destroyed two of its fabrics: the Escape in Egypt and the Holy Family.

Works

  • the Way of Cross , Museum off Fine Arts, Boston
  • the Martyrdom of saint Venanatius de Camerino , Houston
  • Fame conquering Time , Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
  • the Virgin adored by the saints (1609), Metropolitan Museum off Art, New York
  • Landscape with Abraham and Isaac , Oxford
  • Apollo , MFA, San Francisco
  • Virgin and holy (c.1600), MFA, Houston
  • Worship of the Magi (c.1600), Museum of Capitole, allegorical Rome
  • Scene, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrare
  • Holy Demetrius , Museum off Fine Arts, Virgin Boston
  • and angels beseeching Christ Christ not to punish the Lust, Avarice and the Pride , the Vatican
  • the Judgment of Paris , Gallery of the Offices, Florence

Sources

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