Santa Margherita Madonna
The ''Santa Margherita Madonna'' is a 1529-1530 oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. History A fundamental work from the artist's time in Bologna between 1527 and 1530, it was painted for the nuns of the Santa Margherita convent. In his ''Lives of the Artists'' Vasari stated that it showed "Our Lady, Saint Margaret of Antioch, Petronius of Bologna, Saint Petronius, Saint Jerome and Saint Michael the Archangel, Saint Michael". In 1686 Malvasia stated it had been commissioned by the Giusti family, but this was in error since that family only owned that chapel from 27 August 1529 onwards and in fact the nuns had on 8 April 1530 given the painting and 150,000 lire in exchange for a house next door to the nunnery from Giovanni Maria Giusti, so that that nobleman could decorate his chapel there as soon as the convent church was complete. Lamo (1560) and Zanti (1583) both praised the work, adjudging it "one of the rare things, considered ext ...
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