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Parmigianino, Madonna with the Long Neck, c. 1535-1540, oil on wood, 85” x 52”, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Parmigianino and That Huge Baby

It’s not that the Italian artist Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, a.k.a. Parmigianino, was horribly confused and thought that the baby Jesus suffered from a rare disease that made him the size of a four-year-old child when he was only an … Continue reading