Bardi Altarpiece (Parmigianino) Bardi Altarpiece (Parmigianino) The Bardi Altarpiece (), is an Italian Mannerist painting by the Italian painter Parmigianino, dating from c. 1521 and housed in the church of Santa Maria at Bardi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. In 1521 Parma was invaded by the imperial-papal troops under Prospero Colonna, in the course of the Italian Wars. The young Parmigianino, then seventeen, was sent by his family to Viadana to his cousin's house. According to Italian late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari, there Parmigianino painted two tempera panels: "St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata" (lost) and the "Marriage of St. Catherine", which was placed in the
Master of the Brunswick Diptych number of other paintings have been identified as being by the same hand. The works by the Master of the Brunswick Diptych show similarities with those of Geertgen tot Sint Jans but the colours are generally lighter, his treatment of space and anatomy is less accomplished and the paintings more miniature-like. In a panel painting presently in Cologne, the master breaks new ground by depicting a domestic scene of a woman feeding a child for the first time in panel painting. Master of the Brunswick Diptych The Master of the Brunswick Diptych (fl. c. 1480-1510) was a Dutch early Renaissance