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

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