Standing Female Figure in Armor Drawing Her Sword (Minerva or Bellona), Parmigianino, ca. 1535–38

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Standing Female Figure in Armor Drawing Her Sword (Minerva or Bellona), ca. 1535–38, Pen and brown ink, over traces of black chalk, sheet: 7 13/16 x 4 5/16 in. ( x cm), Drawings, Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore), This figure sketch shows the goddess Minerva in plumed helmet and skirted Classical armor standing in three-quarter view facing left about to draw her sword from the scubbard. The drawings is thought to have been preparatory for the statuette of a Classical warrior depicted as a detail at right in Parmigianino’s Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi, Count of San Secondo dated to 1535-38 (Museo del Prado, Madrid), for which another related study is in the Museo di Capodimonte, Naples

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