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Parmigianino

(the little one from Parma)

1503-1540

Artistically and stylistically influenced  the following painters  - Correggio, Raphael and Michelangelo

Education - the painter spent time in the art studios of various uncles.

Cause of Death - He descended slowly into madness becoming obsessed with alchemy.

According to Renaissance Art Historian Vasari "He used his brains no longer for working out fine conceptions with his pencils and colours, but wasted all his days instead over his charcoal and wood and glass bottles and such trash, spending more in a day than he earned in a week by his painting in the Steccata."  His life became in a downward spiral.  He was imprisoned in a small dank cell for several years before fle