Una nota su Parmigianino studioso delle incisioni di Dürer

Dürer’s influence on Italian artists during the first half of the sixteenth century took many forms: some were influenced by his landscape and animal studies, others by his bold composi- tions and new approaches to traditional subjects. Others, instead, were dazzled by his supremacy as a printmaker, and above all perhaps by his almost miraculous capacity to create startling effects of light and shade in monochrome. Parmigianino’s interest in Dürer has hitherto been largely overlooked, except for his response in Fontanellato to the dogs in the Saint Eustace engraving, that can be easily demonstrated, and it is hardly surprising.