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CORREGGIO: Assumption of the Virgin

CORREGGIO
🖼 Assumption of the Virgin, 1526-30
Fresco
1093 × 1195 cm
Parma, Italy

Swirling clouds and foreshortened figures spiral upward in dizzying perspective, their flesh rendered with luminous softness. Correggio's revolutionary illusionism dissolves the dome's boundary, transforming architecture into heavenly ascension and establishing the visual language of Baroque transcendence.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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