Example sentences for: correggio

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  • The home of two famous painters, Correggio and Parmigianino, and birthplace of the conductor Arturo Toscanini, has much more to offer than just great cheese and ham.

  • She commissioned Correggio to decorate it in 1519 (his first work) with mischievous putti angels and a very pagan view of Chastity as symbolized by the goddess Diana.

  • Inside, on the ceiling of the central octagonal dome, are Correggio’s greatest masterpieces, his frescoes of the Assumption of the Virgin (1530) where he achieved, in the truest sense, exalting emotion without the sentimentality of Mannerist imitators.

  • Note the gentle beauty of Correggio’s Nativity and Adoration of the Magi.

  • Behind the cathedral, the 16th-century Renaissance church of San Giovanni Evangelista also has in its dome a fine Correggio fresco of the Vision of St. John on Patmos.


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