Olympus (Surprise)
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in brown ink; sixth state of six
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 13/16 × 7 9/16 in. (27.5 × 19.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.67.40
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Niccolò Vicentino|Andrea Andreani · 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...