Virgin and Child Seated on Clouds
Parmigianino
n.d.
Medium
Black chalk, with brush and brown wash, on ivory laid paper, partially laid down on blue wove paper
Dimensions
15.9 × 11.4 cm (6 5/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
Classification
chalk and wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85137
About the Artist
Parmigianino · 1503–1540
Parmigianino (1503–1540), born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, was an Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the most influential figures of the first generation of Mannerist artists. Orphaned before his second birthday, he was raised by his painter uncles in Parma and showed extraordinary precocity, completing a major altarpiece by age eighteen. His elegant, sophisticated style—charac...