Parmagianino, Antea
(detail), 1531-4, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino (a nickname meaning "the little one from Parma") or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by elongation of form and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the Madonna with the Long Neck (1534).
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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or more commonly as Parmigianino (a nickname meaning "the little one from Parma") or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by elongation of form and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the Madonna with the Long Neck (1534).
Parmagianino, Antea,1531-4 , Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
NOTE:
Occasionally gazing at these images (and Antea’s gaze) today, I’m reminded how astonished I was when I first saw Parmagianino’s paintings and how they still completely enthrall me. One’s first dose of Mannerism is a little bit like taking a new drug; you never thought the world could look like that and then you think, yes – the world should look like that always. The drug then wears off. With any luck, you reorder your senses and priorities and learn the history behind the image and the manner in which the image was created. (Why this way, rather than that way? How?) You then re-view the work, seeing it anew and calmly. If and when the old feeling hits you, it’s like Bob Marley said: You feel no pain.
Parmagianino, Study for Madonna With The Long Neck, 1535, private collection (formerly part of Robert Lebel collection, Paris)
