Apostel Jakobus de Meerdere
Parmigianino
1524 - 1540
Medium
etching
Dimensions
69; 122
About this artwork
De apostel Jakobus de Meerdere op de rug gezien.
About the Artist
Parmigianino · 1503–1540
Parmigianino (1503–1540), born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, was an Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the most influential figures of the first generation of Mannerist artists. Orphaned before his second birthday, he was raised by his painter uncles in Parma and showed extraordinary precocity, completing a major altarpiece by age eighteen. His elegant, sophisticated style—charac...