Girolamo da Carpi

The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Ferrara, Bologna and Rome. Positions recorded include court painter. Works named in the authority record are The Adoration of the Kings, Holy Family in a landscape and The Magical Procession. Work by Girolamo da Carpi is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Museo del Prado, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum.

He trained in the studio of a local painter who showed the influence of Lorenzo Costa and Raphael. In the 1520s Girolamo visited Rome and Bologna and was inspired by the Mannerist style of Giulio Romano. Geographically and stylistically he straddles the various influences. He returned to Ferrara and collaborated with Dosso Dossi and Garofalo among others on commissions for the d’Este family. Girolamo became the architect to Pope Julius III in 1550 and supervised the remodeling of the Vatican's belvedere. Returning to Ferrara, he was charged of the enlargements of the Castello Estense. Da Carpi's paintings include a Descent of the Holy Spirit in the church of St Francis at Rovigo; a Madonna; an Adoration of the Magi and a St. Catharine at Bologna; and a St George and St Jerome at Ferrara. Among the pupils of Girolamo da Carpi were Bartolomeo Faccini and Ippolito Costa.

• Landscape with Magical Procession (circa 1525, attr.); Galleria Borghese, Rome • Adoration of the Magi (1531; San Martino, Bologna) • Marriage of Saint Catherine (1532–1534; Santissimo Salvatore, Bologna) • St. Longinus (1531) • Pentecost (San Francesco, Rovigo) • Opportunity and Remorse (1541; Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)