Bartolomeo Schedoni

Bartolomeo Schedoni (sometimes Schedone) (1578 – 23 December 1615) was an Italian early Baroque painter from Modena.

Biography He was born in Modena, and moved to Parma with his father, a mask-maker who served the Farnese court. After falling ill, he returned to Parma. The baroque art historian Count Carlo Cesare Malvasia (1616–1693) claims that Schedoni trained under Annibale Carracci in Bologna, although this is questionable; his early work reveals instead his study of Correggio's works in Parma. The Parmesan painter Giovanni Lanfranco was among those who found inspiration in Schedoni's theatrical style.

Schedoni's masterpieces are in the Galleria Nazionale of Parma, and were the two paintings intended for the altar of the church of the Capuchin convent in Fontevivo, near Parma.

Selected works

Deposition , Louvre, Paris; Charity (1611), 1611, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples; Deposition (1613), Galleria Nazionale of Parma, Parma, Italy; Saint Elizabeth Giving Alms to the Poor (1613, painted for the Ducal Palace in Parma, before being moved to Naples with the Farnese Collection in 1734 upon being inherited by Charles of Bourbon, then to Rome by the French from 1799 to 1832, before being returned to Naples, initially to the Museo Borbonico then in 1841 to the Royal Palace). Saint John the Evangelist, , National Trust, London; Three Marys at the Tomb , Galleria nazionale di Parma, Parma, Italy; The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, in a moonlit landscape, oil on softwood panel, priv. col.; Penitent Magdalene, oil on panel, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; A boy resting, oil on canvas, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki; The Charity of St. Elizabeth, oil on canvas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, Trinity Fine Art, London; Infant Saint John the Baptist, oil on canvas, Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire.