Madonna of the Rose, she reaches for a rose held by the Christ child, who rests his left arm on a globe
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 11/16 × 13 5/16 in. (47.5 × 33.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.855
Tags
Madonna and ChildGlobesRoses
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Domenico Tibaldi · 1503–1540
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino, was born on January 11, 1503, in Parma, into a family of artists. The eighth child of painter Filippo Mazzola and Donatella Abbati, he lost his father to the plague at age two and was raised by his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, modestly talented painters who taught him the techniques of the craft. By his late teens, Parmigianino d...