Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (,US: /-dʒɑːˈ-/,Italian: [parmidʒaˈniːno]; “the Tiny one from Parma”), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker lithe in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma. His produce an effect 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 bearing in mind the Long Neck (1534), and he remains the best known artist of the first generation whose collect careers fall into the Mannerist period.
His prodigious and individual skill 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 later ended by his death at unaccompanied 37. He produced outstanding drawings, and was one of the first Italian painters to experiment with printmaking himself. While his portable works have always been keenly collected and are now in major museums in Italy and regarding the world, his two large projects in fresco are in a church in Parma and a palace in a small town nearby. This in conjunction similar to their want of large main subjects has resulted in their being less skillfully known than other works by similar artists. He painted a number of important portraits, leading a trend in Italy towards the three-quarters or full-length figure, previously mostly reserved for royalty.
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