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Cupid Making His Bow (c. 1533–1535) by the Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 1503 – 24 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino

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1 Sydney J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500–1600, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1993, pp. 471–490.
2 A. E. Popham, Catalogue of the Drawings of Parmigianino, Phaidon, London, 1953, pp. 9–15.
3 Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori, ed. Gaetano Milanesi, Sansoni, Florence, 1878–1885, vol. IV, pp. 479–483.
4 David Ekserdjian (ed.), Correggio and Parmigianino: Master Draughtsmen of the Renaissance, British Museum Press, London, 2000.
5 Mary Vaccaro, Parmigianino: The Paintings, Umberto Allemandi, Turin, 2002, pp. 57–76.
6 Mario Di Giampaolo and Elisabetta Fadda, Parmigianino, Keybook, Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, 2002, pp. 142–147.
7 Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Gemäldegalerie. Italienische Malerei, latest ed., entry on Parmigianino, Amor schnitzt seinen Bogen.
8 Edward J. Olszewski, “Parmigianino Paints Madonna with the Long Neck,” Research Starters, EBSCO, 2022.
9 Cecil Gould, Parmigianino, Abbeville Press, New York, 1994.
10 The Art Story Foundation, “Parmigianino Artist Overview and Analysis,” online resource.
11 Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, The Mastery of Nature: Aspects of Art, Science, and Humanism in the Renaissance, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993, pp. 209–230.

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Martin Smallridge
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