Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome at the National Gallery
James White | The Upcoming | 4th December 2024
When the Renaissance artists got bored with scientifically accurate perspective and proportion, they came up with mannerism – a “flaunting of style and distortion”. Parmigianino went all in on this and, at the tender age of 23, produced one of the style’s masterpieces. Hanging in London, it was regarded as a “mustardy-yellow monstrosity” until a 10 year restoration. Now, says one writer it is “one of the UK’s most mesmerising works of Renaissance art.”