Girolamo Da Carpi (1501 – 1556),
• Was an Italian painter and decorator.
• He began painting in Ferrara, by report apprenticing to Benvenuto Tisi (il Garofalo).
• By age 20, he had moved to Bologna, and is considered a figure of Early Renaissance painting of the local Bolognese School.
• He trained in the studio of a local painter who showed the influence of Lorenzo Costa and Raphael.
• In the 1520s Girolamo visited Rome and Bologna and was inspired by the Mannerist style of Giulio Romano.
• He returned to Ferrara and collaborated with Dosso Dossi and Garofalo among others on commissions for the d’Este family.
• Girolamo became the architect to Pope Julius III in 1550 and supervised the remodeling of the Vatican's belvedere.
• Returning to Ferrara, he was charged of the enlargements of the Castello Estense.
• Among the pupils of Girolamo da Carpi were Bartolomeo Faccini and Ippolito Costa.