The influential Parmigianino, his art distinguished by…

The influential Parmigianino, his art distinguished by a new emphasis on ornament and grace, begins his Mannerist masterpiece, “Madonna with the Long Neck,” in 1534 for the funerary chapel of Francesco Tagliaferri in Parma, but it will remained incomplete on Parmigianino's death in 1540.

Vibrant color, elongated forms, and distorted spatial relationships characterize the thirty-one-year-old painter’s supremely elegant, artificial style.