MADONNA DEL COLLO LUNGO (of the Long Neck), Parmigianino, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 6 ft. 10 in. × 4 ft. 3 in.; signed. Called also M. degli Angeli (of the Angels). The Virgin, seated, gazing on infant Jesus asleep in her lap; on one side a group of angels, one bearing a vase. Painted by order of Elena Bajardi-Tagliaferri (1534) for the Cappella dei Tagliaferri in S. M. de' Servi, Parma; sold in 1674 to Cosimo III. de' Medici, and placed in Pitti. Carried to Paris in 1799; restored in 1815.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 231; Ch. Blanc, École lombarde, Parmigianino; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, iii. 76; Lavice, 66; Landon, Musée, v. Pl. 39.
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Madonna del Collo Lungo, Parmigianino, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
MADONNA, COLONNA (della Casa Colonna),
Raphael, Berlin Museum; wood, H.
2 ft. 6 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; figure to the knees;
unfinished. The Virgin, sitting, has a book
in one hand and holds Jesus in her lap with
the other; he clings to her dress with one
hand and tries to rise. Painted in Perugia
(?) about 1508; belonged to the Salviati family,
Florence, whence passed by inheritance
to the Colonna; bought in Rome of Maria
Colonna, wife of Duke Giulio Zante della Rovere,
by Chevalier Bunsen for Prussian government.
Probably mostly the work of
Domenico Alfani. Many copies. Engraved
by Masquelier (1820); Barocci (1827); Caspar;
Reveil; P. Lightfoot (1849); Ed. Mandel
(1855).—C. & C., Raphael, i. 349; Passavant,
ii. 66; Müntz, 176; Gruyer, Vierges
de Raphael, iii. 71; Lübke, Raphael, 33,
100.
MADONNA DEL CONIGLIO, Correggio.
See Zingarella.
MADONNA DEL CONIGLIO (of the
Rabbit, Vierge au Lapin), Titian, Louvre;
canvas, H. 2 ft. 3-1/2 in. × 2 ft. 9 in.; signed.
The Virgin, seated on the grass, with her
hand on a white rabbit, which St. Catherine,
with Jesus in her arms, stoops to look at;
in background, St. Joseph fondles a black
lamb near a hut; a summer landscape with
distant hills. Painted in 1530 for Federico
Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua; belonged to
Louis XIV. No copies known.—C. & C.,
Titian, i. 338; Filhol, vii. Pl. 493; Landon,
Musée, xiii. Pl. 8.
MADONNA, CONNESTABILE or
STAFFA, Raphael, Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
wood transferred to canvas, 6-3/4 in.
sq. The Virgin, standing in a landscape,
holds Jesus on her left arm and reads from
a book, which the Child is trying to grasp;
in background, hills covered with snow, a
boat on a lake, and a man on a white horse.
"A genuine and almost priceless masterpiece"
(C. & C.). Picture formerly a round
in a square, the panel of one piece with the
frame. Painted in Perugia about 1502-3
for Alfano di Diamante, uncle of Raphael's
friend, Domenico di Paris Alfani, from whom
it descended to the collateral branch of the
Connestabile Staffa family, Perugia. Sold
by Count Scipione Connestabile of Perugia
