SCHEDONI, Bartolomeo
(b. 1578, Modena, d. 1615, Parma)

The Holy Family

1610-12
Oil on canvas, 107 x 89 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Schedoni spent his career in the service of the Este in Modena and the Farnese in Parma, perpetuating the sixteenth-century Emilian tradition, in particular that of Correggio, associating it with the style of Carracci and Caravaggio, whose work he witnessed during his apprenticeship in Rome.