Parmigianino - Finestre sull'Arte

London, National Gallery returns to display Parmigianino masterpiece after 10 years

A major return to the National Gallery in London: in just under a year's time, in December 2024, the London museum will return to display, after a decade, a masterpiece of Italian Mannerism, Parmigianino's Madonna and Child with Saints, also known as...
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Madonna with the Long Neck, Parmigianino's unfinished masterpiece

Lost in antiquity is the origin of the nickname by which the Madonna with the Long Neck, the masterpiece by Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola; Parma, 1503 - Casalmaggiore, 1540), now housed in the Uffizi, is known today. The work is known thus ab antiq...
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Parmigianino's Turkish Slave: the Parmesan painter's most famous portrait

She is not a slave, nor is she Turkish: yet, this wonderful young woman with brown hair and green eyes, with her fine arched eyebrows, coquettish gaze and flushed cheeks, has gone down in art history as the Turkish Slave. And it is one of the bes...
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