E 'Magic as the magic that has tried to learn to turn lead into gold, we are left with him a marvelous work of frescoes and paintings.
very young in expressing themselves in painting and is, unfortunately, all died prematurely.
Pellegrino has always been wandering for years and places but he always brought with her kind treatment and filled with elegant color tones as discrete and not at all intrusive.
Even during the period of hallucination search of the magical and the chain has not forgotten the painting.
Even during the period of hallucination search of the magical and the chain has not forgotten the painting.
Rocca San Vitale in Fontanellato (between Bicester and Parma) is worth visiting to discover at its most human, that which has not continued to not understand the inscrutable will of the gods but he is a man in the depths.
Francesco Mazzola,
known as Parmigianino,
born January 11, 1503 in Parma, where, from the Pontremolese, had established his family of artists.
starts very young to paint in the workshop of his uncles Michael and Pier Ilario Mazzola (painters like Philip's father, who died in 1505).
returned to Parma in 1522 comes in contact with the Correggio frescoes when three chapels in San Giovanni Evangelista, and the teacher will decorate the cupola.
In 1523 and is working successfully in the portraits, the portraits he made up a large gallery of characters, such as the famous Charles V, or its famous "Self Portrait in the mirror", which portrays' 'looks very nice and rather angel than a man,''was commissioned to fresco the "stove" in the fortress of Sanvitale Fontanellato with stories of Diana and Actaeon.
The artists of the artistic journey he always wore in Rome, arrived there in 1524 and Parmigianino, in that crowded by great artists, was dazzled by the art of Michelangelo and Raphael, but it was inserted quickly into the fabric to achieve artistic results of personal expression, based on the oval, oblong, tied to a certain enigmatic tone resulting from the cold and changing color.
Parmigianino As stated in the capital, in 1527 came the famous Bag Rome, where the eternal city was conquered and sacked by hard and English mercenaries, who also created considerable damage to the artistic heritage and put in danger the lives of the artists themselves. The sack of Rome
cost the country twelve thousand deaths, rapes and abuse, and most of the goldsmith's craft of the churches. Escaped
Urbe sacked and moved to Bologna, the artist dedicated to an intense production of altarpieces and paintings of private destination where thinly sensual interpretation of results leads to the Renaissance style modules now fully mannered.
In 1531, Parmigianino received the prestigious commission to paint the church of the Franciscan Batten, but after a start full of enthusiasm, the painter begins to neglect the painting to devote himself to studies with growing passion for alchemy, chasing the dream of transforming mercury into gold.
In those years created a self-portrait painting with the face marked and looked tired but looking ncora inspired, Vasari describes him as a "man almost savage."
The result of this lack of artistic concentration that Parmigianino is no longer able to find inspiration for the frescoes of which is in charge for eight years and was imprisoned for default.
Parmigianino escaped from prison and moved to Casal Maggiore, where, and the desire to paint, the artist creates works of supreme perfection and aristocratic as the Madonna of the long neck, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Cupid's bow and Antea works, works that are characterized by ' formal abstraction and the complexity of iconographic buildings, attacked a severe fever, died Aug. 24, 1540 and wishes to be buried in the church of friars 'de' Servi, called the Fountain, "naked with a cross on his chest at the top of arcipresso" Casalmaggiore along the Po
(from Settemuse)
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