
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
Italian Artist · 1503–1540
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Parmigianino, born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola in Parma, Italy, became Italy's most influential Mannerist painter in his brief twenty-year career. His father and uncles taught him the techniques of painting, and by age sixteen he had already completed an altarpiece for a local church. Beginning in 1520, the celebrated Renaissance artist Correggio became his primary inspiration. Scholars belie
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David with the Head of Goliath
Getty Museum · about 1535
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Figure Study
Getty Museum · 1526–1527
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Studies of Saints John the Baptist and Jerome, a Crucifix, and Various Heads (recto); Studies of the Christ Child, a Crucifix, and a Dog (verso)
Getty Museum · about 1525–1527
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Studies of the Madonna and Child (recto); Studies of the Madonna and Child and of an Architectural Detail (verso)
Getty Museum · about 1535
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Two Studies for a Holy Family
Getty Museum · 1526
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