Parmigianino | Mannerist Artist from Parma

Madonna of the Long Neck, Parmigianino c. 1535, Uffizi, Florence, Italy

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Parmigianino was influenced by Correggio whose works he saw in Parma. Arriving in Rome in 1524, he was influenced by the works of Raphael and Michelangelo. The atmosphere in Rome was tense at this time, and that tension is reflected in Parmigianino's work with its emotional intensity, strange lighting, irrational space, and erotic, lascivious themes.

Parmigianino moved to Bologna after Rome was sacked in 1527, then he gravitated back to Parma. Parmigianino's masterpiece work is the exquisite Madonna of the Long Neck of 1535 now in the Uffizi in Florence.

Brenda Harness, Art Historian