The Three Heads are a fragmented fresco (71x60 cm) attributed to the Parmigianino School, dating back to about 1530-1534 and preserved in the Spada Gallery of Rome. History and Descriptive Modification wikitesto
Of uncertain origins, the fragment already considered to be the seventh-century Emilian school by Federico Hermanin (1922) was attributed to Parmigianino by Adolfo Venturi (1926), confirmed by Frölich-Bum (1930), Arturo Quintavalle (1948) , by Federico Zeri (1954) and others.
Copertini (1932) and Freedberg (1950), on the other hand, talked of a Parmigianino imitator, due to the unquenchable quality of the fresco, perhaps compromised by tear. A girl's head, with her shoulders, remembers the Three Wise Virgins and three foolish virgins of the Madonna della Steccata in Parma, with a long, tapered chest as typical of the artist. On the left a putto looks, while on the right is an old bearded man. Mortar in 1969 reiterated autographs, but today it tends to hold the Three Parmigianino's non-handy heads. For more correspondence, the work on works such as the Scenes of the Life of St. Catherine of Alexandria in the Palace of Lalatta in Parma is attributed to Bertoia. Bibliografiamodifica wikitesto
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