Seated Goddess Diana (recto); Studies of a Nude Male Torso Seen from the Rear, and a leg (verso) ca. 1522 Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Italian The softly rendered drawing on the recto of this early sheet was clearly inspired by Correggio's Diana, frescoed around 1518-19 above the fireplace in the Camera di San Paolo in Parma. The drawing technique is palpably Correggesque, with reinforced contours full of movement and a sfumato effect of tone despite the use of hatching. The present study has been described as a "copy from memory" after Correggio, but it reveals such fundamental differences of conception with respect to Correggio's fresco (the goddess exhibits more compact bodily proportions, and is seated in a languid, entirely restful pose) that it seems an independent work. It may well be that the challenge of designing a Diana fresco cycle of his own in the small room at the Rocca Sanvitale in Fontanellato stimulated Parmigianino in this iconographic exercise. Th

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Seated Goddess Diana (recto); Studies of a Nude Male Torso Seen from the Rear, and a leg (verso) ca. 1522 Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Italian The softly rendered drawing on the recto of this early sheet was clearly inspired by Correggio's Diana, frescoed around 1518-19 above the fireplace in the Camera di San Paolo in Parma. The drawing technique is palpably Correggesque, with reinforced contours full of movement and a sfumato effect of tone despite the use of hatching. The present study has been described as a "copy from memory" after Correggio, but it reveals such fundamental differences of conception with respect to Correggio's fresco (the goddess exhibits more compact bodily proportions, and is seated in a languid, entirely restful pose) that it seems an independent work. It may well be that the challenge of designing a Diana fresco cycle of his own in the small room at the Rocca Sanvitale in Fontanellato stimulated Parmigianino in this iconographic exercise. Th

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