CARPI, Girolamo da, a historical and portrait painter, was born at Ferrara in 1501, and was one of the most promising pupils in the school of Benvenuto Garofalo. On leaving
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ing Ferrara he spent several years at Parma and Modena, carefully copying the works of Correggio and Parmigiano; and on his return he executed some original paintings for the churches of Bologna and Ferrara, which so closely resembled the works of Correggio as to have been attributed to that artist. His finest paintings are, The descent of the Holy Spirit, in the church of St Francis at Rovigi; a Madonna, St Giorgio, St Maurelio, and St Girolamo, at Ferrara; the Adoration of the Magi, the Madonna, and St Catherine, at Bologna. He died in 1556.