The Holy Family with Infant John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria

The painting was originally attributed to Parmigianino, then to Bernardino India and, finally, to Prospero Fontana, to whom it must actually belong for all too explicit comparisons. The work is said to be among the painter's most youthful, dated between 1539 and 1545. The relations with Bernardino India are still evident and constitute the open question on the training of the Veronese painter who seems to gravitate on Emilian Mannerism or more probably on the presence of Bolognese painters, like Primaticcio, in Mantua.