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| Parmigianino Vision St Jerome - Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist (detail) 1526-27 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Parmigianino Vision St Jerome - Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist 1526-27 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Parmigianino Pietro Maria Rossi, Count of San Secondo ca. 1535-38 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Parmigianino St Barbara 1522 oil on panel Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Parmigianino Mystic Marriage of St Catherine ca. 1527-31 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Parmigianino Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (detail) ca. 1527-31 oil on panel National Gallery, London |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child ca. 1527-28 oil on panel (unfinished) Courtauld Gallery, London |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child with St Margaret, St Petronio, St John the Baptist and St Jerome 1529 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child with St Margaret, St Petronio, St John the Baptist and St Jerome (detail) 1529 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child with St Margaret, St Petronio, St John the Baptist and St Jerome (detail) 1529 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Parmigianino Circumcision of Christ ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Parmigianino Circumcision of Christ (detail) ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Parmigianino Circumcision of Christ (detail) ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Parmigianino Circumcision of Christ (detail) ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Parmigianino Circumcision of Christ (detail) ca. 1520-30 oil on panel Detroit Institute of Arts |
"Parmigianino was the leading painter of Parma after Correggio, and is celebrated as one of the originators and leading exponents of Mannerism. He was indebted also to the work of Raphael and Michelangelo, evolving a personal manner, expressive and stylish, that influenced later painters in Italy and, by mean of his widely disseminated etchings, throughout Europe. Parmigianino was active mainly in Parma before moving to Rome in 1524, and (after the Sack of Rome by Imperial troops in 1527) to Bologna. His last years wer spent mainly in Parma and partly, according to Vasari, in the pursuit of alchemy."
– from curator's notes at the National Gallery, London