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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.
Parmigianino and all the artists of his time who deliberately sought to create something new and unexpected, even at the expense of the 'natural' beauty established by the great masters, were perhaps the first 'modern' artists. [3] Parmigianino has distorted nature for his own artistic purposes, creating a typical Mannerist figura serpentinata ...
Art historians [3] have noted that the left-hand putto under Mary's hand is almost a twin copy of that painted by Parmigianino under the north arch of the dome in San Giovanni Evangelista, though it may be a mid 1520s study later used for that putto rather than vice versa. The present state of the work makes it impossible to define its origins ...
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.
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 ...
Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist is a painting by Parmigianino, executed c. 1528. It was in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome until 1662, when it moved to Parma. There it hung in the Palazzo del Giardino and later in the Galleria Ducale - the 'Descrizione' of the latter in 1725 called it one of the finest works on display there.
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.