RottingMentalIago
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Parmagianino was an artist whose name means “little one from Parma” and he was a manlet. He never got married and was one of the earliest mannerist painters.
What immediately stands out when you look at his self portrait at age 22 is that he, staring into a mirror with a slightly sideways and weird facial expression, looks like a Sperg. Not only does this 22 year old look like he’s about 14 but he’s got many of the facial features we now know to be associated with autism on his soft babyface.
His paintings of women are why I think he’s based. Whereas men are painted relatively normally, women are frequently painted in a distorted manner. Massive long necks, sloping foreheads- women basically look like aliens in his paintings.
His painting Madonna with the Long Neck is the most famous example but I think Turkish Slave is more brutal. Her eyes aren’t even pointing in the same direction.
Our man “the little one” ended up spending time in prison because after he was fired from a job painting some church or whatever because he didn’t get on with the authorities and was pedantic about how to do things, he carried on turning up to the job and continuing his own work by painting over the work of the new artists that had replaced him.
He died, 1540, after developing some illness.
What immediately stands out when you look at his self portrait at age 22 is that he, staring into a mirror with a slightly sideways and weird facial expression, looks like a Sperg. Not only does this 22 year old look like he’s about 14 but he’s got many of the facial features we now know to be associated with autism on his soft babyface.
His paintings of women are why I think he’s based. Whereas men are painted relatively normally, women are frequently painted in a distorted manner. Massive long necks, sloping foreheads- women basically look like aliens in his paintings.
His painting Madonna with the Long Neck is the most famous example but I think Turkish Slave is more brutal. Her eyes aren’t even pointing in the same direction.
Our man “the little one” ended up spending time in prison because after he was fired from a job painting some church or whatever because he didn’t get on with the authorities and was pedantic about how to do things, he carried on turning up to the job and continuing his own work by painting over the work of the new artists that had replaced him.
He died, 1540, after developing some illness.





