This is Filippo Mazzola

Filippo Mazzola (1460 – 1505) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period.

He was born in Parma, his dad 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 similar to to assay his main stylistic references: Antonello da Messina, Giovanni Bellini and Alvise Vivarini. His most notable undertaking is the polyptych kept at the basilica of Cortemaggiore, although it is currently missing a couple of paintings. He was the father of the painter Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola. He died at the age of roughly 45 years, during an epidemic of plague.

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