{"id":10086,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10085"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:27","slug":"parmigianino-mannerist-from-parma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/parmigianino-mannerist-from-parma\/","title":{"rendered":"Parmigianino, Mannerist from Parma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Madonna of the Long Neck by Parmigianino\" alt=\"Madonna of the Long Neck by Parmigianino\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/parmigianino-long-neck-ff51dcca8c37.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Madonna of the Long Neck, Parmigianino c. 1535, Uffizi, Florence, Italy Click here to see our fine art reproductions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Italian artist known as Parmigianino was a painter and etcher who worked in the <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?page_id=13#mannerism\">Mannerist<\/a> style. Parmigianino&#8217;s real name was Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, and he was born in Parma. Early on Parmigianino demonstrated sophisticated artistic ability with a special interest in original and unique spatial effects.<br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parmigianino was influenced by <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10020\">Correggio<\/a> whose works he saw in Parma. Arriving in Rome in 1524, he was influenced by the works of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10126\">Raphael<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10125\">Michelangelo<\/a>. The atmosphere in Rome was tense at this time, and that tension is reflected in Parmigianino&#8217;s work with its emotional intensity, strange lighting, irrational space, and erotic, lascivious themes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parmigianino moved to Bologna after Rome was sacked in 1527, then he gravitated back to Parma. Parmigianino&#8217;s masterpiece work is the exquisite <em>Madonna of the Long Neck<\/em> of 1535 now in the Uffizi in Florence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian artist known as Parmigianino was a painter and etcher who worked in the Mannerist style. Parmigianino&#8217;s real name was Girolamo Francesco Mazzola, and he was born in Parma. Early on Parmigianino demonstrated sophisticated artistic ability with a special interest in original and unique spatial effects. Parmigianino was influenced by Correggio whose works he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}