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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Circumcision of Christ before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Holy Family ca. 1530 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Holy Family with young St John the Baptist ca. 1522-24 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Philosopher Reading ca. 1524-27 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Saturn devouring a Child ca. 1535 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Seated Woman with Putto ca. 1524-27 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Sheet of Studies before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Sheet of Studies before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Sheet of Studies before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Sheet of Studies before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) St John the Baptist in the Wilderness ca. 1527-30 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) St John the Evangelist Preaching before 1540 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) St Roch ca. 1527-30 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) St Roch ca. 1527-30 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Studies of Heads ca. 1530-40 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Two Putti ca. 1522-23 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Two Putti ca. 1522-23 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Two Studies of Women holding Infants ca. 1524-27 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Elongated Virgin with Children ca. 1534 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) Virgin of the Annunciation ca. 1520-24 drawing Musée du Louvre |
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino (1503-1540) – Precocious painter and etcher from Parma – hence his nickname. Assimilating the influences of Correggio, Raphael and Michelangelo, he forged an original and extremely elegant form of Mannerism which was widely influential throughout Europe, especially as it spread by means of his etchings. Trained by his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, after the death of his father in 1506, he was painting independently from the age of 18. . . . Vasari records that Parmigianino's last years were devoted to alchemy, although this may be a rumour caused by his interest in the chemical procedures of etching. The artist seems certainly to have undergone a period of severe depression, [before dying of "fever" in 1540 at age 37].
– Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)