Mutius Scaevola placing his hand in the flames (left half of a composition, the right half of which shows a woman extending her right arm towards an altar)
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet: 4 3/8 x 2 9/16 in. (11.1 x 6.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.70.3(143)
Tags
SwordsMenFire
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) · 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...