It is notable for its long, sinewy Christ-child and for a certain disconcerting feature of the Virgin Mary.
Four onlookers huddle close together on the left, while a small - almost imperceptible - figure unfolds a scroll in the lower right. Painted around 1532, it was completed after the artist had moved from Parma to Rome, but it now hangs in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. It is notable for its long, sinewy Christ-child and for a certain disconcerting feature of the Virgin Mary. FTP name this Mannerist painting by Parmagianino.
Four onlookers huddle close together on the left, while a small - almost imperceptible - figure unfolds a scroll in the lower right.
{Madonna with the Long Neck}