Carlo Bononi (Ferrara 1569-1632)

Carlo Bononi has been seen as the last great artist to come from the school of Ferrara, which produced such a rich, inventive and idiosyncratic line of painters under the Este Dukes, from Cosimo Tura through to Garofalo. Apprenticed first to Giuseppe Mazzuoli, il Bastarolo, and then to Scarsellino, Bononi travelled widely to the major artistic centres of the peninsula, but received most of his commissions in the towns and cities of Emilia: notably Modena, Reggio and his native Ferrara.