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Mascherino [Mascarino], Ottaviano [Ottavio dei Nonni]
(b Bologna, bapt 3 Sept 1536; d Rome, 6 Aug 1606). Italian architect, sculptor and painter. He was the son of Giulio Mascherino, a mason who worked with Jacopo Vignola in 1547. Vignola’s influence is clear in Ottaviano Mascherino’s earliest attributed work, the Porta Pia (Porta di S Isaia) in Bologna (1567–71; destr. 20th century), and it has been suggested that he merely executed Vignola’s design (Wasserman, 1966). He is documented in 1568 as the architect supervising the construction of the Fountain of Neptune in Bologna. A year later he joined the Consiglio dei Bombasari e Pittori in Bologna, and his first documented works are paintings. Also in 1569, with Lorenzo Fiorini, in the Cubiculum Artistarum of the Archiginnasio (the university) he painted frescoes representing the Liberal Arts (partially destr. 1944) and executed the niche and statue of Apollo for the entrance. There are echoes of Parmigianino, Lorenzo Sabatini and Giambologna in these works. In the Villa Guastavillani at Barbiano (nr Bologna), there are frescoes and a statue of Bacchus attributed to him (Negro, 1990). He probably also planned this villa, which was begun in 1575 by Cardinal Filippo Guastavillani (1540–87), a nephew of Pope Gregory XIII (reg 1572–85).
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