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GIROLAMO DA CARPI (15or-1556)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 397 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GIROLAMO DA CARPI (15or-1556)  ,
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Italian
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historical and portrait painter, born at
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Ferrara, was one of Benvenuto Garofalo's best pupils . Becoming infatuated. with the
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work of Correggio, he quitted Ferrara, and spent several years in copying that master's paintings at
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Parma, Modena and elsewhere, succeeding in aping his mannerisms so well as to be able to dispose of his own
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works as originals by Correggio . It is probable that not a few pictures yet attributed to the
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great painter are in reality the work of his parasite . Da Carpi's best paintings are a Descent of the
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Holy Spirit, in the church of St Francis at
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Rovigo; a Madonna, an Adoration of the Magi, and a St Catharine, at Bologna; and the St George and the St Jerome, at Ferrara .

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