Parmigianino valuation
Italian painter and printmaker from Parma, known for the elongated grace of the Madonna with the Long Neck.
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino (1503–1540), was born in Parma and showed his skill early with the Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror of about 1524, now in Vienna.
What a work by Parmigianino is worth
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Bio
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino (1503–1540), was born in Parma and showed his skill early with the Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror of about 1524, now in Vienna. He went to Rome and left after the Sack of 1527, working in Bologna and returning to Parma, where he took on the decoration of Santa Maria della Steccata. The Madonna with the Long Neck in the Uffizi, left unfinished, stretches its figures into an elegance that has come to define Mannerism. He was also among the first Italian artists to make etchings.
Paintings are very rare outside museums. His drawings are numerous and sought after, and his etchings, along with chiaroscuro woodcuts made after his designs, appear more often. A buyer will want an attribution from a specialist for a drawing, and for a print the impression, the paper and any watermark matter. Sheets should be checked for trimming, thin spots, foxing and later strengthening of the lines.
At a glance
- Born
- 11 January 1503, Parma
- Died
- 24 August 1540, Casalmaggiore
- Movement
- Mannerism
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