长颈圣母

Commissioned by noblewoman Elena Bajardi in 1534 for the Church of Santa Maria dei Servi in Parma, and placed there in 1542, though the panel was left incomplete (as stated in the inscription). After being offered to Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici in 1674, it remained in the church unti1 1698 when it was sold to Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici. Brought to Paris by the Napoleonic soldiers in 1799, it was returned to the Galleria Palatina in 1815. It has been in the Uffizi since 1948.