Parmigianino: Facts

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Italian painter Perugino had probably finished his altarpiece The Virgin appearing to St. Bernard by the time Raphael became his apprentice?
Raphael painted Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, into The Mass at Bolsena (pictured, della Rovere in black), commissioned for the Apostolic Palace?
Timoteo Viti was probably responsible for part of the training of Raphael in Urbino, and many years later worked under his direction in Rome?

19th century Polish general Ludwik Mierosławski led revolutionaries in Poland, Germany and Italy?
Bulgarian–Italian Futurist painter Nikolay Diulgheroff, an honorary citizen of Turin, studied at the original Bauhaus in Weimar?
canoe racer Josefa Idem, a 1984 Olympic bronze medalist for West Germany, later took an Italian citizenship and became the first female Olympic medalist in canoeing for her new country?
chief justice Frederick Richard Jordan once decided that the government of New South Wales had "no business" refusing a water irrigation licence just because the applicant was Italian?
Christmas is traditionally celebrated in Agnone, Italy, with a torchlight parade known as Ndocciata? (2006 event pictured)
Galileo's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist?
Giorgio Francia of Italy became the first non-German to win the German Formula Three Championship, by winning the title in the year 1974?
Italian aerodynamicist Antonio Ferri took to the hills in 1943 with a trunk load of scientific documents to turn over to the Allies?
Italian aeronautical engineer Corradino D'Ascanio developed a record-setting early helicopter in 1930 and designed the original Vespa motor scooter in 1946?
Italian film director Marco Ferreri hired actor Michel Piccoli almost immediately after the two first met for his art house masterpiece Dillinger Is Dead?

German painter Ludwig Thiersch influenced the debate over Byzantine and Western influences in modern Greek art, and painted church frescoes in Greece, Austria, Germany, England, and Russia?
landscape and portrait painter Herbert A. Collins (pictured) made several portraits of naturalist John Muir as well as paintings of the evolution of Yosemite Valley?
Lucian Freud described the Titian paintings Diana and Acteon and Diana and Callisto as "simply the most beautiful pictures in the world"?
New York abstract painter Dennis Ashbaugh is one of the first artists to employ DNA marking patterns in paintings?
painter and sculptor Roberto Aizenberg has been called the "best-known" orthodox surrealist in Argentina?
Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
Swedish modernist painter Torsten Andersson sometimes destroyed hundreds of sketches leading up to his finished works?
Togolese painter and sculptor Paul Ahyi, who designed the flag of Togo, was inducted as a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2009?
British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
American illustrator, painter and printmaker Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer was the great-great granddaughter of Philadelphia artist Charles Willson Peale?

Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam?
the Florentine Mannerist sculptor Niccolo Tribolo is often called "the father of the Italian garden" for his axial designs for Cosimo I de Medici at the Boboli Gardens and at Cosimo's villas?