The portrait of man with petrarchino is a painted oil on table (66x31 cm) by Francesco Mazzola, known as Parmigianino, dating back to about 1524 and kept in a private collection. History and Descriptive Modification wikitesto
The work was awarded to Parmigianino only in 1981, by Philip Poncey, attribution confirmed by Beguin (2000 and 2001) and by Mario Di Giampaolo. The only advanced identification proposal (Beguin) sees in the work a resemblance to author's self-portraits, such as Self Portrait within a convex mirror. On the back there is a pen-inscription: "1528 at the end of March, now 28", with a stamp with the papal keys and the number two: in spite of this, criticism dated the work rather in 1524, before the painter's departure for Rome, analogous to other portraits of that period, such as Galeazzo Sanvitale and the collector: the protagonist, half-portrait on a green background on which the shadow is projected, has his face strongly illuminated, creating a smooth, compact surface, almost enamelled, in contrast to the soft and dark effect of long beard and hair. The man wears a large black jacket and a cap of the same color, the preferred tonality of the agitating classes in the first half of the 16th century (since it is very expensive) and holds in hand the gloves that are parade and a "petrarchino", that is a Canzoniere di Francesco Petrarch, whose name is mentioned in golden letters on the cover. Hands, very clear, are not in good conservative conditions. The dress, the golden ring at the finger, and above all the book, denote the high cultural and social level of the defiant. In the bottom around the top of the headgear, there are obvious traces of repentance aimed at reducing the size of the cap. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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