The graceful elegance of Parmigianino’s (1503–1540) works was regarded by his contemporaries and the succeeding generations as the perfection of style. Although the Museum of Fine Arts does not preserve any of his paintings, however, we own an extensive collection of his drawings and prints. Parmigianino was a passionate and prolific draughtsman. Almost one thousand sheets have survived, representing the richest drawing oeuvre of sixteenth-century Italy, with the exception of Leonardo. The diversity of the themes and techniques of the twenty autographed drawings in the Collection of Prints and Drawings represent every period of the artist’s career and provide an insight into his magnificent art. 
 

Parmigianino was the first Italian artist to experiment with etching, and he formed ties with renowned printmakers in Rome, the most prosperous centre of printmaking of the period he lived in. Some of the most beautiful sheets in the history of printmaking originate from Parmigianino’s collaboration with the engraver Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio, the woodcutter Ugo da Carpi, and later with Antonio da Trento in Bologna. Almost all of Parmigianino’s own etchings and some prints after his designs by various artists are found in our collection. Some fifty exhibited sheets provide an insight into the unfolding and most prosperous period of Italian printmaking.
 

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