Parmigianino paintings

Being born when the High Renaissance was getting into full swing in the early 16th century wasn’t a present for aspiring artists. The predominant feeling was that everything in art history was already accomplished by Renaissance artists, and who were they to blame, right? This was the motif for Mannerist artists to exaggerate the harmonious …

A little man from Parma was born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (1503-1540) but is better known by his nickname Parmigianino. This Mannerist artist is one of the first artists whose career completely fell within this 16th-century art movement also known as the Late Renaissance. The Mannerist paintings he produced are defined by an exaggeration of …