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The Madonna of the Long Neck (Italian: Madonna dal collo lungo) is an oil painting on wood, attributed to Parmigianino, housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The painting is considered one of the most important and representative of Italian Mannerism, inspired by an anti-Classical aesthetic and rich in symbolic allusions and transpositions. The painting is popularly known as the "Madonna of the Long Neck", because "the painter, in his desire to make the Blessed Virgin graceful and elegant, gave her a neck like that of a swan." The work was commissioned by Elena Baiardi Tagliaferri for her chapel in the church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Parma under a contract dated 23 December 1534. Elena was the sister of the horseman Francesco Baiardo, a friend and patron of Parmigianino's, who bought his studio on the artist's death and owned Cupid's bow. By contract, the artist had undertaken, for a sum of thirty-three ecus paid in advance, to complete the painting in five months, before Whitsun in 1535, on pain of penalties guaranteed by a mortgage on his house. However, the deadline was exceeded and the work left unfinished when the artist left for Casalmaggiore in 1540, where he died, leaving the painting in his studio. The cavalier Baiardi took possession of the artist's studio, where he inventoried 22 paintings and 495 drawings. Some fifty surviving drawings bear witness to the Parmesan's lengthy preparatory work; in one drawing in the Louvre, the painter depicted a temple that, [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the renaissance period. It belongs to the mannerism style.

 

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