The Virgin, impossibly tall and elegant, balances an oversized Christ Child on her lap while six angels crowd into the left side of the picture. Begun in 1534 for a funerary chapel in Parma, it was still unfinished when Parmigianino died in 1540. Its stretched proportions and lopsided space make it a textbook case of Mannerism.
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Far below at right, a tiny St Jerome stands by a row of columns, barely reaching the Virgin's knee. The vase held by one angel shows the faint image of a cross.
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