BONUS POST FROM THE ART HISTORIAN CURMUDGEON*

* As yet there isn't an art historian curmudgeon but, pending readers' responses one can be created.

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THE ART HISTORIAN CURMUDGEON

You may have noticed that Richard, in a recent post used an image from Ludovico Mazzolino's 'God The Father' painting (painted between 1510 and 1520).

Had Richard, like me, studied 'Renaissance Art Stage Two' at Victoria University he would know that artists, particularly artists from The Renaissance used images of themselves or their patrons when painting religious artwork.

Ludovico Mazzolino (1480 – c. 1528) was also known as Mazzolini da Ferrara, Lodovico Ferraresa, and Il Ferrarese . He was an Italian Renaissance painter who lived and worked in Ferrara and Bologna the source (sauce) of many great creations - a little cultural joke there.

 Much of Mazzolino's work was commissioned by the duke Ercole I d'Esme from Ferrara who was a bit older than Mazzolino. The duke, in all of the paintings that Mazzolino and others did of him is always portrayed as wearing a hat which might be a clue to his baldness and being a bald old coot.

Mazzolino died relatively young, even for the times, but may have been a bald young coot though. The exact date, or even year, of his death is unknown, but he died during a plague which devastated the area he lived in.

I hope that you liked this post and are appreciative of my efforts to bring a little bit of historical accuracy into your reading. When it comes to Richard (of RBB)'s blog posts, like with anything said or written by Donald Trump it's a case of caveat emptor.

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