The Madonna with Saint Stephen and John the Baptist

The Casalmaggiore Altarpiece is an oil on panel painting by Parmigianino, from 1540. It is held in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, in Dresden, which acquired it from the Este collection in 1746.

It is named after Casalmaggiore, whither the artist had fled from Parma after imprisonment for non-compliance by the priors of Santa Maria della Steccata and where he spent five months before dying of a fever. It was commissioned for the church of Santo Stefano (now the Duomo) in the town and in 1846 Mortara recorded a tradition that the commissioner was Matteo Cavalli and that Cavalli is shown resting his head on Saint Stephen's leg in the lower left of the work. A preparatory study survives in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, along with a drawing of the Madonna and Child for the work in the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe in Florence.

The work remained in Santo Stefano for at least a century before the local commu…

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