Olympus (Surprise)
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in brown; first state of six
Dimensions
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 6 1/16 in. (23.2 × 15.4 cm) trimmed
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1933
Accession Number
33.13(16)
Tags
About the Artist
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Niccolò Vicentino · 1503–1540
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino, was born on January 11, 1503, in Parma, into a family of artists. The eighth child of painter Filippo Mazzola and Donatella Abbati, he lost his father to the plague at age two and was raised by his uncles, Michele and Pier Ilario Mazzola, modestly talented painters who taught him the techniques of the craft. By his late teens, Parmigianino d...