Augustus and the Tiburtine Sibyl
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
33.2 × 25.9 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
7026
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...