PAINTER

Parmigianino

1503 - 1540

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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (UK: , US: , Italian: [parmidʒaˈniːno]; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His work is characterized by a "refined sensuality" and often elongation of forms and includes Vision of Saint Jerome (1527) and the iconic if somewhat anomalous Madonna with the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose whole careers fall into the Mannerist period. His prodigious and individual talent has always been recognised, but his career was disrupted by war, especially the Sack of Rome in 1527, three years after he moved there, and then ended by his death at 37. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Parmigianino has received more than 417,688 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). Parmigianino is the 124th most popular painter (up from 127th in 2019), the 457th most popular biography from Italy (down from 435th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Italian Painter.

Parmigianino is most famous for his use of chiaroscuro in his paintings.

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  • 69.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Parmigianino ranks 124 out of 2,023. Before him are Fernando Botero, Yayoi Kusama, Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, Andrea del Sarto, and Gustave Moreau. After him are Gerrit Dou, Hans Memling, John Constable, Carl Larsson, Franz Marc, and Jean Fouquet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1503, Parmigianino ranks 5. Before him are Nostradamus, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Bronzino, and Isabella of Portugal. After him are Christian III of Denmark, Henry II of Navarre, Anne of Bohemia and Hungary, John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma, Gerolama Orsini, and Robert Estienne. Among people deceased in 1540, Parmigianino ranks 2. Before him is John Zápolya. After him are Thomas Cromwell, Angela Merici, Rosso Fiorentino, Francesco Guicciardini, Juan Luis Vives, Tristão da Cunha, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Guillaume Budé, Joos van Cleve, and Tomé Pires.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Parmigianino ranks 457 out of 5,161. Before him are Umberto Nobile (1885), Andrea del Sarto (1486), Pope Symmachus (460), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Lorenzo Valla (1407), and Pope Zosimus (400). After him are Pope Agapetus II (900), Gaius Julius Caesar (-135), Pope John IX (850), Pope John XVII (950), Pope Celestine II (1100), and Pope Anastasius IV (1073).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Parmigianino ranks 37. Before him are Bronzino (1503), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Guido Reni (1575), Annibale Carracci (1560), Simone Martini (1284), and Andrea del Sarto (1486). After him are Antonello da Messina (1430), Lavinia Fontana (1552), Pontormo (1494), Umberto Boccioni (1882), Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290), and Filippino Lippi (1457).

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