''The Conversion of St Paul'' is a 1527 oil on canvas painting by

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, B ...

, now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in

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. It was seen in the house of Giovanni Andrea, a major figure in Parma, by both

Giorgio Vasari Giorgio Vasari (, also , ; 30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was an Italian Renaissance Master, who worked as a painter, architect, engineer, writer, and historian, who is best known for his work '' The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculp ...

(1550) and Lamo (1560). On Andrea's death in 1566 the work left Parma and is known to have been in Madrid in 1608, where it featured in the collection inventory of

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. It moved to the museum in Vienna in the 18th century and was first exhibited to the public in 1912.

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1527 paintings Horses in art Paintings by Parmigianino Paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum