Head of a Young Woman, by Parmigianino

An image of Head of a Young Woman. Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (Italian, 1503-1540). Silverpoint, heightened with bodycolour on a pinkish-grey prepared surface, on paper, height 113 mm, width 90 mm.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Head of a Young Woman. Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (Italian, 1503-1540). Silverpoint, heightened with bodycolour on a pinkish-grey prepared surface, on paper, height 113 mm, width 90 mm.

Image data

Accession Number: 3078
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 827 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 892.20kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2016:11:15 13:11:36

Key words

16th Century bodycolour delicate drawing eyes cast downward female Fitz_PDP Francesco Mazzola heads Italian lady Late Renaissance Mannerism Mannerist metalpoint Parmigianino portraits Renaissance silverpoint woman young youth

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Head of a Young Woman, by Parmigianino "
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2062857421 Accessed: 2025-03-14 01:11:01

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2062857421
            |title=Head of a Young Woman, by Parmigianino 
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-03-14 01:11:01|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-202623

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp76/3078_201611_adn21_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Head of a Young Woman"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Head of a Young Woman, by Parmigianino </figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>