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Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

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Parmigianino - The virgin, child and St. John

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Print shows the Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus with his cousin in the background.
After Francesco Mazzuoli who was called Il Parmigianino.
Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Renata V. Shaw, Prints and Photographs Division. Washington : Library of Congress, 1979, pp. 24-28.
Print originally part of Pembroke album, no. 13.
Graphic sampler, pp. 10-28

The image of Mary holding the Christ Child is a common depiction in Christian art and is known as the "Madonna and Child." It represents the mother of Jesus and her son and is a symbol of motherhood, love, and compassion.

Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.

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01/01/1520
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Parmigianino, 1503-1540, artist
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Library of Congress
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