Assumption of the Virgin, Correggio
The Assumption of the Virgin is a fresco by the Italian Late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio decorating the dome of the Cathedral of Parma, Italy. Correggio signed the contract for the painting on November 3, 1522. It was finished in 1530. The Assumption is a masterpiece of di sotto in su ceiling painting. Correggio used di sotto in su, the practice of foreshortening the painting in order to make it lengthen the canvas, in an audacious and exemplary fashion. The apostles and the clouds seem to float upward on layers as the figure of Christ descends from the heavens.
