In this elegant, Renaissance-era church of a central layout, built by Parma Council between 1521 and 1539, Parmigianino frescoed, with interruptions and resumptions, between 1533 and '39, the under-arch of the main alter, leaving it incomplete.
The frescoes represent the Prudent Virgins and the Foolish Virgins, Adam and Eve, Moses and Aron.
The church also preserves the original canvases of Parmigianino, on which David and Saint Cecilia are portrayed. These should have been used as the wings on the organ, but were later adapted for a new instrument by the Flemish painter Jan Soens in 1581.