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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Artworks collected in Metmuseum

Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (UK: , US: , 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. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period.His prodigious and individual talent has always been recognised, but his career was disrupted by war, especially the Sack of Rome in 1527, three years after he moved there, and then ended by his death at only 37.  He produced outstanding drawings, and was one of the first Italian painters to experiment with printmaking himself.  While his portable works have always been keenly collected and are now in major museums in Italy and around the world, his two large  projects in fresco are in a church in Parma and a palace in a small town nearby.  This in conjunction with their lack of large main subjects has resulted in their being less well known than other works by similar artists. He painted a number of important portraits, leading a trend in Italy towards the three-quarters or full-length figure, previously mostly reserved for royalty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmigianino

Head of man in Profile to Left

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Head of man in Profile to Left
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1963

Male Nude Torso with Raised Arms

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Male Nude Torso with Raised Arms
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1910

Justice Holding Scales

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Justice Holding Scales
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1962

Madonna and Child (recto); Head and Bust of Saint John the Evangelist  (verso)

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Madonna and Child (recto); Head and Bust of Saint John the Evangelist  (verso)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1910

The Virgin Walking to the Right Carrying the Christ Child

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: The Virgin Walking to the Right Carrying the Christ Child
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1919

Seated Goddess Diana (recto); Studies of a Nude Male Torso Seen from the Rear, and a leg (verso)

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Seated Goddess Diana (recto); Studies of a Nude Male Torso Seen from the Rear, and a leg (verso)
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1910

Roman or Greek Warriors Celebrating after a Victory.

Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore / The Met

   title: Roman or Greek Warriors Celebrating after a Victory.
   department: Drawings and Prints
   accessionYear: 1961

The Adoration of the Shepherds

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