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Giovanni Lanfranco - Saint Agatha visited in prison by Saint Peter and the angel
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Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a girl, called
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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, detto Parmigianino - Portrait of a gentlewoman known as "The Turkish Slave"
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Domínikos Theotokópoulos, detto El Greco - Healing of the blind
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Antonio Canova - Marie Louise of Habsburg as Concordia
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Lamentation over the dead Christ
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Giovanni Battista, detto Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints John the Baptist, Cosma, Damiano, Apollonia, Catherine and John the Evangelist
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Hans Holbein il Giovane - Erasmus of Rotterdam
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Benedetto Antelami - Wayside Shrine
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Beato Angelico - Madonna of humility, Saints John the Baptist and Paul and the meeting of Saints Dominic and Francis; in the frame, Fourteen Seraphim
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Antoon van Dyck - Madonna and child
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Giambattista Tiepolo - Saints Joseph of Lioness and Faithful of Sigmaringen Trampling Heresy
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Coronation of the Virgin (fragment of the apse of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma)
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Giorgio Scherer - Interior of a painter's studio
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Alberto Pasini - A caravan that spent the night in an oasis and prepared for departure
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Rest during the return from the flight into Egypt called "Madonna della scodella"
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Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Magdalene known as "Madonna di San Gerolamo" or "The day"
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Gabriel François Doyen - Death of Virginia
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Damià Campeny - Table triumph
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Giuseppe Baldrighi - Family of Don Filippo di Borbone
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Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri, detto Dosso Dossi - St. Michael the archangel fights the devil and the Virgin of the Assumption among angels
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Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with Palladian buildings
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Annibale Carracci - Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints Clare and Francis of Assisi
Giovanni Lanfranco - Saint Agatha visited in prison by Saint Peter and the angel
Leonardo da Vinci - Head of a girl, called
Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, detto Parmigianino - Portrait of a gentlewoman known as "The Turkish Slave"
Domínikos Theotokópoulos, detto El Greco - Healing of the blind
Antonio Canova - Marie Louise of Habsburg as Concordia
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Lamentation over the dead Christ
Giovanni Battista, detto Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child Enthroned and Saints John the Baptist, Cosma, Damiano, Apollonia, Catherine and John the Evangelist
Hans Holbein il Giovane - Erasmus of Rotterdam
Benedetto Antelami - Wayside Shrine
Beato Angelico - Madonna of humility, Saints John the Baptist and Paul and the meeting of Saints Dominic and Francis; in the frame, Fourteen Seraphim
Antoon van Dyck - Madonna and child
Giambattista Tiepolo - Saints Joseph of Lioness and Faithful of Sigmaringen Trampling Heresy
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Coronation of the Virgin (fragment of the apse of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma)
Giorgio Scherer - Interior of a painter's studio
Alberto Pasini - A caravan that spent the night in an oasis and prepared for departure
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Rest during the return from the flight into Egypt called "Madonna della scodella"
Antonio Allegri, detto il Correggio - Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Magdalene known as "Madonna di San Gerolamo" or "The day"
Gabriel François Doyen - Death of Virginia
Damià Campeny - Table triumph
Giuseppe Baldrighi - Family of Don Filippo di Borbone
Giovanni Francesco di Niccolò Luteri, detto Dosso Dossi - St. Michael the archangel fights the devil and the Virgin of the Assumption among angels
Giovanni Antonio Canal, detto Canaletto - Capriccio with Palladian buildings
Annibale Carracci - Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints Clare and Francis of Assisi

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The bowl he gave to the work is the one with which the Virgin draws water from the miraculous spring to quench her son's thirst, while on the other hand Joseph has just picked the dates from the palm to feed him; at the bottom you can see the angel that ties the donkey to the tree, while at the top is a riot of angels on clouds sprinkled with a warm golden light, a divine light that seems to pervade the whole scene. The subject of the painting, commissioned by the Confraternity of San Giuseppe, which had the patronage of a chapel in the Parmesan church of San Sepolcro, depicts the Rest during the return from Egypt, as we understand from the age of the now grown Child, and derives from a passage from the apocryphal Gospel of the Pseudo Matthew: the intent of the clients to give particular prominence to the figure of Joseph, which in fact dominates the entire right half of the composition, is clear. In the calculated and skilful compositional orchestration, all played on the diagonal in which the protagonists of sacred history are arranged, what is most striking, as always in Correggio, is the extraordinary naturalness and the profound sense of humanity that emanates from the divine figures, that emphasis of the "affections" which will be one of the fundamental ingredients of the artist's fortune in the Baroque age. Similarly, the superb choir of angels at the top alludes to the extraordinary twirling of the angels in the heavenly vision of the dome of the Duomo, which Correggio was frescoing in the same years. The wooden ancona, carved by Marcantonio Zucchi on a drawing by the same painter, shows an updated old-fashioned taste, as well as the dedication and completion date of the work in 1530. Of course, this splendid panel was also requisitioned by the Napoleonic government and brought in Paris in 1796. It returned to Parma in 1816 and was exhibited in the rooms of the Gallery dedicated to Correggio's masterpieces.


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