(b Parma, 11 Jan 1503; d Casalmaggiore, 24 Aug 1540).
Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Beginning a career that was to last
only two decades, he moved from precocious success in the shadow of Correggio in
Parma to be hailed in the Rome of Clement VII as Raphael reborn. There he
executed few large-scale works but was introduced to printmaking. After the Sack
of Rome in 1527, he returned to northern Italy, where in his final decade he
created some of his most markedly Mannerist works. Equally gifted as a painter
of small panels and large-scale frescoes both sacred and profane, he was also
one of the most penetrating portrait painters of his age. Throughout his career
he was a compulsive draughtsman, not only of preparatory studies for paintings
and prints, but also of scenes from everyday life and of erotica.
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror
c. 1524
Oil on wood, diameter 24,4 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Cupid
1523-24
Oil on wood, 135 x 65,3 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Rest on the Flight to Egypt
1524
Oil on panel, 110 x 89 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid
Madonna and Child with Saints
c. 1530
Oil on wood, 75,5 x 60 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Pallas Athene
c. 1539
Oil on canvas, 63,8 x 45,1 cm
Royal Collection, Windsor
Portrait of a Man 1523
Oil on panel
National Gallery, Londo
Portrait of a
Young Woman known as Antea 1524-27
Oil on canvas
Museo di Capodimonte, Naple
The Conversion of St Paul
Oil on canvas, 177,5 x 128,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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