Parmigianino biography of martin

Parmigianino madonna with the long neck

Italian Mannerist Painter. Artistically and stylistically influenced the following painters - Correggio , Raphael and Michelangelo. Education - the painter spent time in the art studios of various uncles. Cause of Death - He descended slowly into madness becoming obsessed with alchemy. According to Renaissance Art Historian Vasari "He used his brains no longer for working out fine conceptions with his pencils and colours, but wasted all his days instead over his charcoal and wood and glass bottles and such trash, spending more in a day than he earned in a week by his painting in the Steccata.

He was imprisoned in a small dank cell for several years before fleeing in the night with several other inmates. Penniless and homeless he died of a fever. He was just Sarah Tytler, author and art historian describes the artists life "Parmigianino, was a follower of Correggio's. In Parmigianino's case the danger of the master's peculiarities became apparent by the lapse into affectation and frivolity.

He had clear warm colouring, decision, and good conception of human life. He was highly successful in portraits.