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Girolamo Francesco Mazzuoli, called Parmagianino for his hometown of Parma, was an incredibly prolific early Mannerist painter and printmaker. Considered a prodigy, Parmigianino completed his first altarpiece at only sixteen and became a darling of the Papal court in his early wenties where they dubbed him the “new Raphael”. In this ornate ewer, which recalls the lily filled amphorae in Parmigianino’s fresco Ten Wise and Foolish Virgins in Parma, we see the elegant, elongated lines which characterize this late Renaissance style