Detail of the Virgin represented as "Madonna del latte" and of vase with the icon of the Crucifixion.Berlin,Staatliche Museen,Gemaldegalerie (mk57)
Painting ID:: 26987
PARMIGIANINO 1521
Type Tempera on panel
Dimensions 203 cm x 130 cm (80 in x 51 in)
cyf Bardi Altarpiece Italian Mannerist Painter, 1503-1540
Italian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Beginning a career that was to last only two decades, he moved from precocious success in the shadow of Correggio in Parma to be hailed in the Rome of Clement VII as Raphael reborn. There he executed few large-scale works but was introduced to printmaking. After the Sack of Rome in 1527, he returned to northern Italy, where in his final decade he created some of his most markedly Mannerist works. Equally gifted as a painter of small panels and large-scale frescoes both sacred and profane, he was also one of the most penetrating portrait painters of his age.
