San Giovanni Battista, School of the '500 of Parmigianino

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SOLD ANTIQUE DEALER Period: 16° secolo - 1500 Antichità Castelbarco Riva del Garda Style: Rinascimento, Luigi XIII +39 0464 973235 393494296409 Height:115cm Width:88cm Material:Olio su tela Price:0€

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Emilian painter of the late sixteenth century School of Francesco Mazzola, known as Il PARMIGIANINO (Parma, 1503 - Casalmaggiore, 1540) Portrait of Saint John the Baptist

Oil on canvas, cm. 99 x 72 With antique frame in gilded wood, cm. 115 x 88

Details of the artwork (link): https://www.antichitacastelbarco.it/it/prodotto/san-giovanni- battista-scuola-parmigianino

Important painting depicting Saint John the Baptist in full figure, a work made in oil on canvas and attributable to an author of the late sixteenth century of the Emilian school of Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino.

The painting, which proves to be of excellent quality, is a study dedicated to the famous altarpiece depicting the 'Vision of San Girolamo', created by Parmigianino in 1526 for the church of San Salvatore in Rome, and now housed in the National Gallery in London (1). (1) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/parmigianino-the-madonna-and-child- with-saints

The fame of Parmigianino, whose career saw him active in Rome and Bologna, was already great while the painter was still alive. His contemporaries, in fact, were able to recognize the beauty of the style and the refinement of the stroke that characterized his works.

Returning to our canvas, the characters of the pictorial drafting suggest a dating towards

1 / 4 anticSwiss 02/10/2021 01:37:31 http://www.anticswiss.com the end of the sixteenth century, while the author is certainly to be found among the different disciples who in the last decades of the century looked to the Parma master as an example of style, replicating him some models of great success and therefore in great demand by the prestigious client of the time.

Among the names of painters close to Parmigianino, Girolamo Bedoli-Mazzola (Parma 1500 - 1569) or Jacopo Zanguidi known as Bertoja (Parma 1544 - 1574), both of his pupils, extremely influenced by him, so much so that the authorship of some paintings is still debated. In fact, the productions by these artists of copies and studies taken from the master are known, confirming the inclination of many painters in the workshop to replicate the most successful cartoons.

The work fascinates, and certainly fascinated also in the sixteenth century, for the aristocratic elegance of the figure of the Baptist who, intensely scrutinizing the viewer with almost hypnotic eyes, twists his body which ends with the gesture of the hand to ideally point towards the top.

In this 'serpentine' pose, the debt to Michelangelo emerges, from the accentuated and complexly posed musculature, of which Parmigianino was able to grasp the most innovative aspect constituted by the powerful monumentality.

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