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Christ Healing a Paralytic

Christ Healing a Paralytic

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Unknown (after Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Il Parmigianino)

The strong diagonal axis of this composition—with its compressed pictorial space, the gracefully twisted pose of the figure on the right, and the elongated figure style—are all features that characterize this as a mannerist work.
Artist
Unknown (after Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Il Parmigianino)
(Unknown) (Italian, 1503 - 1540)
Title
Christ Healing a Paralytic
Date
after 1515
Medium
Chiaroscuro woodcut
Dimensions
10 5/8 x 8 1/8 in. image
Credit
Gift of Frank R. Horlbeck
Accession No.
2011.8.12
Classification
Prints
Geography
Italy

Related

2011, gifted by Frank R. Horlbeck (Madison, WI) to the Chazen Museum of Art

  • Karpinski, Caroline, ed. "Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts (Bartsch vol. XII)." University Park: Pennsylvania University Press, 1971. section 2, no. 14

  • Mannerism in Italy and the Low Countries: Chazen Museum of Art, 2/14/2009–5/3/2009
  • Beyond Black and White: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Frank Horlbeck Collection: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 11/9/1991–1/12/1992

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