Marriage of the Virgin
Parmigianino
1573–1577
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and blue wash, corrected with touches of lead white (partially oxidized), over black chalk, on cream laid paper, laid down on ivory wove card
- Dimensions
- 26.9 × 42.2 cm (10 5/8 × 16 5/8 in.)
- Genre
- Ink with wash
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
drawings (visual works)black chalkchalkinkwashink with washopaque white pigmentwhite pigmentprints and drawingcolored inkinorganic materialbrown inkblue washcolorantlead whitecoating (material)pigmentpaper (fiber product)
About
Parmigianino's assimilation of Raphael and the Roman School was very influential for the next generation of Mannerist draftsmen. This large and impressive sheet, once thought to be by Parmigianino himself, is freely derived from a drawing by him in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, which relies heavily on Raphael's Vatican frescoes.
