Parmigianino, "The Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Jerome" (1526–27), oil on poplar, 135 x ∼58 1/2 inches (342.9 x 148.6 cm) (© The National Gallery, London. Presented by the ...

London’s National Gallery is finally unveiling the U.K.’s only Parmigianino altarpiece on the occasion of the institution’s 200th anniversary. The early Mannerist master’s towering The Madonna and ...

In 1527, Vasari writes, Parmigianino was working in Rome when it was sacked by mutinying soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire. He was in his studio, so happily absorbed in painting that he apparently ...

In the age of the blockbuster museum show, where people would kill if they could only see The Ancient Gold of the Impressionists, it’s exhilarating to see The Frick Collection mount an exhibit of a ...

After waiting for more than eight months, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has finalized its purchase of a rare 16th century Parmigianino painting considered a masterwork of the late ...

Her expression may be as enigmatic as Mona Lisa, her raiments as charged with meaning as "Girl With a Pearl Earring," but the knowing directness of the gaze leveled by the lady in "Schiava Turca," or ...

If you think the selfie was born as a direct result of the cellphone, “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror,” painted just over 500 years ago by Francesco Mazzola, the Italian artist commonly known as ...

A valuable 16 th century painting by the Renaissance artist known as Parmigianino could soon find a home in Los Angeles, but the work of art is still subject to an export license from Britain. The J.

Since Brunelleschi created linear perspective early in the 15th century, thousands of painters have created the illusion of credible three-dimensional worlds into which we have all been invited to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The pretty young woman must have been drawn from life. Shown in profile, the delicacy of her retroussé nose, ...