The Entombment
Parmigianino
1529-1530
Medium
etching and drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 27.4 × 20.6 cm (10 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 20.7 cm (10 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Accession Number
1976.39.5
About the Artist
Parmigianino · 1503–1540
Parmigianino (1503–1540), born Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, was an Italian painter and printmaker who became one of the most influential figures of the first generation of Mannerist artists. Orphaned before his second birthday, he was raised by his painter uncles in Parma and showed extraordinary precocity, completing a major altarpiece by age eighteen. His elegant, sophisticated style—charac...