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The saint's pose may have been intended as an homage to Parmigianino's elder fellow artist Correggio, who was also based in Parma. Correggio's Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (Louvre} may have inspired St Jerome's pose with his feet forward, head tilted backwards and his body at once vertical and horizontal. In Correggio's painting, the naked love ...
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (UK: / ˌ p ɑːr m ɪ dʒ æ ˈ n iː n oʊ /, [2] US: /-dʒ ɑː ˈ-/, [3] Italian: [parmidʒaˈniːno]; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma.
Portrait of Lorenzo Cybo by Parmigianino, 1524. Lorenzo Cybo, also spelt Cibo, (20 July 1500 – 14 March 1549) was an Italian general, ... His uncle was Pope Leo X.
Vasari records Parmigianino painting two works in gouache in Bologna "for Master Luca di Leuti". Four preparatory drawings for the work survive (one each) in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990346), [ 1 ] the Galleria nazionale di Parma (inv. 510/5), the British Museum (1905,1110.18) [ 2 ] and the Ashmolean Museum (inv. 446).
At his father's death (1521), he inherited the family lands as count of San Secondo. In 1523 he married Camilla Gonzaga , who brought a dowry of 6,000 ducati , jewels, furniture and other assets. After a first sojourn in France , Pier Maria returned to Italy and here he defended the family fiefs alongside his uncle.
Nativity with Angels (c. 1525) by Parmigianino. Nativity with Angels is a c.1525 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili, in Rome.Its shape and dimensions show it to form a diptych with the Doria Madonna in the same gallery.
The art historian Ghidiglia Quintavalle theorised that the work was a late Parmigianino self-portrait, identifying it with "a coloured painting finished di lapis showing a self-portrait of the Parmesanino, 0.5 high by 4 tall", a work mentioned in a posthumous inventory of his studio. [1]
The Holy Family with Angels is an oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, from c. 1524. It is held in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. [1]It is usually identified with the "large painting" showing "Our Lady with the Christ Child on her neck taking fruit from an angel's lap and an old man with hairy arms" which Giorgio Vasari states Parmigianino produced just before leaving for Rome, adding that ...