Sebastiano Filippi

Sebastiano Filippi or Bastianino (c. 1536- 23 August 1602) was an Italian late Renaissance - Mannerist painter of the School of Ferrara.

Born in Ferrara to a painter, Camillo Filippi, who had worked under Dosso Dossi. He initially likely apprenticed with his father and brother (Cesare Filippi), and is thought to have worked with them when they painted a processional standard "Gonfalone" for the "Oratorio dell'Annunziata" in Ferrara. He left Ferrara, dominated by the likes of Dosso Dossi, Garofalo, and Girolamo da Carpi, as a young man to find work in Rome.

In Rome, he is said to have been recommended by Jacopo Bonacossi, the Ferrarese doctor of the Pope, to enter training with Michelangelo. He worked for seven years under the master in Rome, then returned to Ferrara in 1553, where he enjoyed the general patronage of the arts by Duke Alfonso I d'Este [ [http://www.comune.fe.it/diamanti/mostra_lucrezia/quadri/q13.htm| (portrait)] ] and subsequently his son Alfonso II

He painted a "Madonna with Peter and Paul" for the church of Vigarano. In the Castello Estense, along with his father and brother he frescoed somewhat whimsical depictions of games in the "Salone dei Giochi" [ [http://www.coopvoli.it/meridiana/web/ferrara/castello_estense/pages/03TA9294.htm 03TA9294 ] ] [ [http://www.coopvoli.it/meridiana/web/ferrara/castello_estense/pages/03TA9287.htm Salone dei Giochi] ] "Saletta dei Giochi", and "Sala dell'Aurora". He is said to have collaborated with Leonardo Brescia in this assignment. He painted a "Circumcision" and an "Annunciation" [ [http://bs-d.unife.it/psichiatria/serviz_clinici/psicosomatica.htm| Annunciation] ] for the church of San Agostino, Ferrara.

His 1565 painting, "Birth of the Virgin", recalls the canvas of Andrea del Sarto [ [http://www.pinacotecaferrara.it/ferrara/opere/common/scheda.jsp?nct=OA0800039772&cmdMenu=biblio Scheda Opera ] ] . He painted large altarpieces for the Certosa of Ferrara, "Vision of Saint Paul" for Massa Lombarda, and "Madonna and Child with Saints and Patrons" in Rovigo in 1565. He painted a fresco of "Last Judgment", highly imitative of Michelangelo, for both the carthusian church St. Christophorus (1578) and for the apse roof of the Cathedral of Ferrara (1577-1580) [*cite book | author= Camillo Laderchi| year=1856| title= La pittura ferrarese, memorie| chapter= | editor= | others= | pages= 118| publisher= Googlebooks| id= | url= http://books.google.com/books?q=intitle:pittura+intitle:ferrarese | authorlink= ] .

He is said to have become blind late in life. His local prominence by then was shared with the painter Scarsellino.

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*cite book | author= Francis P. Smyth and John P. O'Neill (Editors in Chief| year=1986| title= The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the 16th and 17th Centuries| chapter= | editor= National Gallery of Art, Washington DC| others= | pages= 61-63| publisher= | id= | url= | authorlink=
*cite book | first= Sydney J.| last= Freedberg| year=1993| title= Painting in Italy, 1500-1600| chapter= | editor= Pelican History of Art| others= | pages= p 574-5| Penguin Books Ltd| publisher= | id= | url= | authorlink=
* [http://www.fondazionecarife.it/rivista/servlet/Controller?gerarchia=02.03.02.13.01.06| Magazine Article]

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