Saint Barbara (Parmigianino)

Painting by Parmigianino

Saint Barbara (c. 1523) by Parmigianino

Saint Barbara is an oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, created c. 1523, now in the Prado Museum in Madrid.[1] Copies of it are in the Mauritshuis (inv. 354), Pomona College and Chatsworth House (inv. 508).

The painting arrived in Spain in 1686, when it was recorded in the real Alcázar di Madrid, and from 1746 in the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso. It is universally attributed to Parmigianino and specifically his youth by comparison with the Virgin Mary in his Bardi Altarpiece and with his Saint Apollonia and Saint Lucy. Popham identifies a drawing at the Bonnat Museum in Bayonne as a possible preparatory study for the work.

## History[edit]

It is probably the Saint Barbara acquired in 1624 with other works by princess Giulia d'Este for cardinal Alessandro d'Este and recorded in 1662 in the Muselli collection in Verona, the latter work being reported as "to my taste [one] of the most beautiful paintings by Parmigianino [...] by an arm's length".[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Catalogue entry". Archived from the original on 2015-01-17.
2. ^ Mario Di Giampaolo ed Elisabetta Fadda, Parmigianino, Keybook, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2002. ISBN 8818-02236-9

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Parmigianino

Paintings|

* Baptism of Christ (c. 1519)
* Bardi Altarpiece (c. 1521)
* Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1521–1522)
* Nativity (c. 1521–1522)
* Circumcision of Jesus (c. 1523)
* Saint Barbara (c. 1523)
* Female Martyr with Two Angels (c. 1523–1524)
* Portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale (1524)
* Portrait of Lorenzo Cybo (1524)
* Sanvitale Madonna and Child (1524) (fragment)
* Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Parma) (c. 1524)
* Portrait of a Collector (c. 1524)
* Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524)
* Holy Family with Angels (c. 1524)
* Doria Madonna (c. 1525)
* Nativity with Angels (c. 1525)
* Vision of Saint Jerome (1526–1527)
* The Conversion of St Paul (1527)
* Virgin and Child (c. 1527–1528)
* Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1528)
* Saint Roch (c. 1528)
* Adoration of the Magi (c. 1529)
* Man Holding a Book (c. 1529)
* Kedleston Madonna (c. 1529)
* Santa Margherita Madonna (1529–1530)
* Madonna of the Rose (1530)
* Boy with a Finger in His Mouth (c. 1530)
* Madonna and Child with Saint Zechariah (c. 1530–1533)
* Turkish Slave (1533)
* Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (London) (c. 1529)
* Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Louvre) (c. 1529)
* Portrait of a Man (c. 1530)
* Portrait of Cecilia Gozzadini (c. 1530)
* Antea (c. 1535)
* Cupid Making His Bow (c. 1533–1535)
* Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi di San Secondo (c. 1535–1538)
* Madonna with the Long Neck (c. 1535–1540)
* Portrait of Camilla Gonzaga and Her Three Sons (c. 1539–1540) (disputed)
* Lucretia (1540)
* Casalmaggiore Altarpiece (1540)
* Portrait of a Man in a Red Beret (c. 1540) (disputed)

Related|

* Rocca Sanvitale
* Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata
* San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma
* San Petronio, Bologna

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