It is full of unanswered questions: is the youth holding a  scroll at the far right an architect, or the prophet Isaiah? Are  the young men at left wingless cherubs? Why is one of them  offering the title figure a metal vase? What's with the white  pillars in the middle distance? Scholars today see it as a  comparison of the elongated female body to the beauty of Classical
It is full of unanswered questions: is the youth holding a  scroll at the far right an architect, or the prophet Isaiah? Are  the young men at left wingless cherubs? Why is one of them  offering the title figure a metal vase? What's with the white  pillars in the middle distance? Scholars today see it as a  comparison of the elongated female body to the beauty of Classical  architecture. FTP name this 1535 Mannerist work, the masterpiece of  Parmigianino. (par-ma-ja-NEE-no)
It is full of unanswered questions: is the youth holding a  scroll at the far right an architect, or the prophet Isaiah?
{Madonna with the Long Neck}