Five Figures [Woman Extending her Right Hand Towards an Altar]
![Five Figures [Woman Extending her Right Hand Towards an Altar] by Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/dp/thumb/five-figures-woman-extending-her-right-hand-365221.webp)
Medium
Etching
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927
Accession Number
27.78.2(118)
Tags
AnimalsMenWomenFemale Nudes
About the Artist
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola)|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 1510–1563
Andrea Schiavone, born Andrea Meldolla around 1510 or 1515 in Zara (modern Zadar, Croatia), in Venetian-ruled Dalmatia, hailed from a family rooted in Meldola near Forlì in Romagna, Emilia-Romagna. His father, Simon Meldolla, served as a garrison commander there, and both parents originated from Meldola, where the family held property into the early 16th century. Nicknamed "Schiavone"—"the Slav"—a...