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CORREGGIO: The Adoration of the Magi

CORREGGIO
🖼 The Adoration of the Magi, 1516-18
Oil on canvas
84 × 108 cm
Milan, Italy

Soft golden light bathes figures gathered around the Christ Child in intimate tenderness, rendered with luminous brushwork and warm chiaroscuro. Correggio's devotional scene epitomizes Northern Italian Renaissance spirituality, influencing Baroque painters through its emotional warmth and revolutionary handling of divine light.

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E. H. Gombrich
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