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Episode 193 - Correggio's "Camera di San Paolo" in Parma

Episode 193 - Correggio's "Camera di San Paolo" in Parma

Rebuilding The Renaissance · Rocky Ruggiero

September 28, 202220m 59s

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The Camera di San Paolo (1519) was Correggio's first major commission in Parma. In the private quarters of a Benedictine abbess named Giovanna Piacenza, he executed a decorative fresco program filled with mythological and festive motifs. The particularly beautiful illusionistic ceiling decoration was a sort of a warm-up for the stunning domes he would paint in the following years.