Female Martyr with Two Angels
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Female Martyr with Two Angels is a c.1523-1524 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, to which it was donated in 1913 by Baroness Emilie Margarethe Beaulieu-Marconnay, member of a family of bankers and art patrons in the city.[1]
Two early copies survive, one in the Galleria nazionale di Parma and the other in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in which a toothed wheel (attribute of Catherine of Alexandria) is added beside the female saint. The Vienna painting was previously considered an autograph work and that in Frankfurt as a copy, but in 1932 art historians reversed their opinion after an X-ray revealed a fine under-drawing under pesanti and re-paintings on the Frankfurt work. All art historians except Copertini (1945-1950) and Frölich-Bum (1953) now hold the Frankfurt work to be autograph.
Freedberg dated the work to around 1524 based on comparison with the Doria Madonna (Galleria Doria-Pamphili) and the portrait of Paola Gonzaga in the Stufetta of Diana and Actaeon at Fontanellato, particularly regarding the pose and the saint's face. That pose also recalls the Diana in the Camera della Badessa in Parma, painted by Correggio, a painter with a strong influence on Parmigianino's early works such as that in Frankfurt.[2]
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- Baptism of Christ (c. 1519)
- Bardi Altarpiece (c. 1521)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1521–1522)
- Nativity (c. 1521–1522)
- The Circumcision (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)
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