\paperw5100 \margr0\margl0 \plain \f1 \ATXsh255 Italian painter. \ATXsh4607 \par
\ATXsh255 He received his training in direct contact with Correggio. Diverging from the model pr
ovided by the decorator of the Camera di San Paolo, he asserted his own personality, demonstrating great sensitivity and elegance enriched by a first-hand knowledge of early Tuscan Mannerism. Escaping from the Sack of Rome (1527), he worked in Parma on t
he frescoes of the church of Santa Maria della Steccata, left incomplete in 1539. His most significant works are the \i Conversion of Saint Paul\i0 (1527/28, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), the \i Madonna della Rosa\i0 (1529-30, Dresden, GemĪ£ldegalerie)
and the \i Madonna with the Long Neck\i0 (ca. 1535, Florence, Uffizi), the \i Self-portrait in the Mirror\i0 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum), and the so-called \i Turkish Slave\i0 (Parma, Pinacoteca). He embodies the more sensually inclined ideal of intern