Standing Female Figure in Armor Drawing Her Sword (Minerva or Bellona)
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 7 13/16 x 4 5/16 in. (19.8 x 10.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, 2006
Accession Number
2006.393.21
Tags
ArmorSwordsWomen
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) · 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...