Madonna and Child with Saints (after Parmigianino)
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 11 x 8 in. (28 x 20.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.126
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold the delicate engraving *Madonna and Child with (after Parmigianino, a masterful reproduction of a composition by the Renaissance Mannerist painter Parmigianino (Girol Francesco Maria Mazzola,1503–1540). Created by Battista d'Angelo del Moro, Italian engraver active in the 16th, this print captures the serene devotion of the Virgin Mary cradling the Christ Child, flanked by attendant saints—a quintessential theme in Christian art symbolizing maternal grace and divine intercession. Engraving, the medium here, involved incising fine lines into a metal plate with a burin, then inking and p...