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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.
It is mentioned in a 1686 inventory of the collections of the Royal Alcazar of Madrid, as the wife of the count of San Sigundo.The subject has been identified with Camilla Gonzaga, wife of imperial general Pier Maria III de' Rossi basing on this note, and by another from 1630 by one of his descendants about the existence of a portrait of him by Parmigianino.
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.
Sanvitale Madonna and Child (1524) by Parmigianino. The Sanvitale Madonna and Child is a 1524 fragment of a lunette fresco by Parmigianino at the Palazzetto Eucherio Sanvitale in Parma. [1] It is heavily influenced by Correggio, particularly quoting his Madonna of the Stairs.
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]
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.
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.