''Female Martyr with Two Angels'' is a c.1523-1524 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, to which it was donated in 1913 by Baroness Emilie Margarethe Beaulieu-Marconnay, member of a family of bankers and art patrons in the city. Two early copies survive, one in the Galleria nazionale di Parma and the other in the

Kunsthistorisches Museum The Kunsthistorisches Museum ( "Museum of Art History", often referred to as the "Museum of Fine Arts") is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on the Vienna Ring Road, it is crowned with an octagonal do ...

in Vienna, in which a toothed wheel (attribute of

Catherine of Alexandria Catherine of Alexandria (also spelled Katherine); grc-gre, ἡ Ἁγία Αἰκατερίνη ἡ Μεγαλομάρτυς ; ar, سانت كاترين; la, Catharina Alexandrina). is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, wh ...

) is added beside the female saint. The Vienna painting was previously considered an autograph work and that in Frankfurt as a copy, but in 1932 art historians reversed their opinion after an X-ray revealed a fine under-drawing under

pesanti A pentimento (plural pentimenti), in painting, is "the presence or emergence of earlier images, forms, or strokes that have been changed and painted over". The word is , from the verb , meaning 'to repent'. Significance Pentimenti may show that ...

and re-paintings on the Frankfurt work. All art historians except Copertini (1945-1950) and Frölich-Bum (1953) now hold the Frankfurt work to be autograph. Freedberg dated the work to around 1524 based on comparison with the

Doria Madonna The ''Doria Madonna'' is a c.1525 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Galleria Doria-Pamphili in Rome. Its shape and dimensions show it to form a diptych with the '' Nativity with Angels'' in the same gallery. A smaller autograph ve ...

(Galleria Doria-Pamphili) and the portrait of Paola Gonzaga in the Stufetta of Diana and Actaeon at Fontanellato, particularly regarding the pose and the saint's face. That pose also recalls the Diana in the

Camera della Badessa 250px, Overview of the vault frescoes. 250px, Coat of arms of abbess Giovanna. 250px, The fresco of Diana in the fireplace. The ''Camera di San Paolo'' (Italian: "Chamber of St. Paul) or ''Camera della Badessa'' (Italian: "Abbess' Chamber") is ...

in Parma, painted by Correggio, a painter with a strong influence on Parmigianino's early works such as that in Frankfurt. Mario Di Giampaolo ed Elisabetta Fadda, Parmigianino, Keybook, Santarcangelo di Romagna 2002.

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1524 paintings Paintings of saints Angels in art Paintings by Parmigianino Paintings in the Städel Paintings of female saints {{16C-painting-stub