Holy Family with Mary Magdalene and Male Saint
Parmigianino
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and gray wash, with touches of black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wove card
Dimensions
17 × 23.1 cm (6 3/4 × 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
ink and wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82435
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...