Which disconcerting detail is NOT found in Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck (Fig. 21-31)?

A. the sleeping Christ child recalls the dead Christ in the Pieta
B. the Virgin appears to sit on a throne but there is none present
C. a serpent with the face of a young girl
D. a disproportionately small figure of St. Jerome in the background


Answer: C

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