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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. He produced outstanding drawings, and was one of the first Italian painters to experiment with printmaking himself. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Parmigianino has received more than 389,487 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Parmigianino is the 127th most popular painter (down from 115th in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Italy (down from 384th 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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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Parmigianino ranks 127 out of 1,421Before him are Mark Rothko, Jan Steen, Charles Le Brun, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe. After him are Juan Gris, Albrecht Altdorfer, Odilon Redon, John Constable, Franz Marc, and Francis Bacon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1503, Parmigianino ranks 5Before him are Nostradamus, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Isabella of Portugal, and Bronzino. 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, Robert Estienne, and Thomas Wyatt. Among people deceased in 1540, Parmigianino ranks 2Before him is John Zápolya. After him are Thomas Cromwell, Angela Merici, Rosso Fiorentino, Juan Luis Vives, Francesco Guicciardini, Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Tristão da Cunha, Guillaume Budé, Joos van Cleve, and Tomé Pires.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Parmigianino ranks 436 out of 4,668Before him are Gaius Maecenas (-68), Jacopo Peri (1561), Pope Honorius I (585), Pope Symmachus (460), Salvatore Riina (1930), and Roberto Benigni (1952). After him are John Cabot (1450), Pope Zosimus (400), Giulietta Masina (1921), Petronius Maximus (396), Pope Hormisdas (450), and Simonetta Vespucci (1453).

Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Parmigianino ranks 37Before him are Guido Reni (1575), Simone Martini (1284), Antonio da Correggio (1489), Bronzino (1503), Annibale Carracci (1560), and Umberto Boccioni (1882). After him are Andrea del Sarto (1486), Pontormo (1494), Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1290), Filippino Lippi (1457), Lavinia Fontana (1552), and Gentile Bellini (1429).