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Correggio’s fresco, “Assumption of the Virgin,” dominates the lunette of Parma Cathedral. Painted between 1526 and 1530, it represents a pivotal moment in Mannerist art. The work employs *buon-fresco* technique to create an intensely illusionistic scene where figures appear to ascend through swirlin...
The Camera di San Paolo is a frescoed chamber in the former Benedictine convent of San Paolo in Parma, painted by Antonio da Correggio around 1519 for the abbess Giovanna Piacenza. Its ceiling creates the illusion of a leafy pergola pierced by oval openings through which playful putti appear, while...
Correggio's Madonna of St. Jerome, commonly called Il Giorno, is a large Renaissance altarpiece painted around 1527 to 1528 and now displayed in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma. It presents the Virgin and Child with Saint Jerome, Mary Magdalene, an angel, and the infant John the Baptist in an intima...
The Madonna of St. Francis is an early sixteenth-century altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Antonio da Correggio. Created for the Franciscan church in Correggio, it presents the Virgin and Child enthroned among saints in a sacra conversazione arrangement, including Saint Francis, and demo...
The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine in the Louvre is an oil painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio, also known as Antonio Allegri. It depicts the infant Christ placing a ring on Saint Catherine of Alexandria in the presence of the Virgin Mary, with Saint Sebastian included nearby. T...
