Filippo Mazzola (1460 - 1505)

• Was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.
• He was born in Parma.
• His father was Bartholomew, and he became a pupil of Francesco Tacconi.
• He worked mainly in the area between Parma and Piacenza.
• There is documentation of a trip to Venice, where he is thought to have gone to study his main stylistic references:
Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini.
• His most notable work is the polyptych kept at the basilica of Cortemaggiore.
• He was the father of the painter Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola.
• He died at the age of about 45 years, during an epidemic of plague.
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