Standing Female Figure in Armor Drawing Her Sword (Minerva or Bellona) ca. 1535-38 Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Italian This figure sketch shows the goddess Minerva in plumed helmet and skirted Classical armor standing in three-quarter view facing left about to draw her sword from the scubbard. The drawings is thought to have been preparatory for the statuette of a Classical warrior depicted as a detail at right in Parmigianinos Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi, Count of San Secondo dated to 1535-38 (Museo del Prado, Madrid), for which another related study is in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. In comparison to the painted detail, however, the present sketch shows the figure as quite evidently female and with broader bodily proportions. As is typical of Parmigianino's late drawings, the present sketch is executed with bold, curved parallel hatching done with a fine pen. It is exactly comparable in this to the small-scale pen sketches of 1534-40, of which several relat
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