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Parmigianino was the eighth child of Filippo Mazzola and one Donatella Abbati. His father died of the plague two years after Parmigianino's birth, and the children were raised by their uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario, who according to Vasari were modestly talented artists. [5]
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 ...
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).
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.
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.
Vasari relays that the self-portrait was created by Parmigianino as an example to showcase his talent to potential customers. [1] The portrait was donated to pope Clement VII, and later to writer Pietro Aretino, in whose house Vasari himself, then still a child, saw it.
The young Parmigianino, then seventeen, was sent by his family to Viadana to his cousin's house. According to Italian late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari , [ 1 ] there Parmigianino painted two tempera panels: St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata (lost) and the Marriage of St. Catherine , which was placed in the church of San Pietro.
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 ...