Madonna and Child with Saint Zechariah

However, other documents clarify the details of the acquisition and - despite past misreadings of them as the commission contract and two payment reminders from Mazzola - they have been correctly interpreted more recently.

These 50 scudi were never paid, since - as shown by two powers of attorney on 9 October 1535 and 11 January 1538 - Parmiganino commissioned Gozzadini to represent him in a trial in Bologna.

[2] Between 1533 and 1550 the work then had to reach Manzoli in Bologna, where Vasari saw it and erroneously claimed that the Gozzadini family commissioned it.

Lamo and Vasari's mentions have complicated later research, linking the discrepancy with surviving documents to the theoretical presence of an early copy.

[2] In 1783 Father Ireneo Affò unwittingly saw the Galleria Corsini replica of the work, long thought to be the original.