Bartolomeo Schedoni (1578-1615)

• Was an Italian early Baroque painter from Modena.
• Schedoni's earliest known commission was in 1598.
• He was born in Modena, and moved to Parma with his father, a mask-maker who served the Farnese court.
• He left Parma after an imprisonment for assault, and relocated to Modena.
• There he served as painter to the court of Cesare d’Este, and collaborated with Ercole dell'Abate.
• 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.
• Schedoni died on 23 December 1615.
• According to the Modenese chronicler Giovanni Battista Spaccini, he died in a "fit of passion"—possibly a suicide—after a night of heavy gambling losses.
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