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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.