Focus on Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Parmigianino, National Gallery) and explore the Provenance.
Vasari wrote of a "Madonna seen from the side, in a fair pose, with several other figures" made by Parmigianino for a saddler friend of his in Bologna. That work was first linked to the London work in 1784, though some art historians date it a few years earlier during the artist's time in Rome, which ended with the Sack of Rome in 1527. The London work is first recorded in inventories of the Galleria Borghese in 1693 and 1750. In 1800 it was acquired by William Young Ottley, from whom it passed to the Earl of Normanton's collection at Somerley House.
Parmigianino Galleria Borghese Sack of Rome Somerley Somerley House Bologna Earl of Normanton Vasari William Young Ottley