The infant Jesus in Correggio’s “Adoration of…

The infant Jesus in Correggio’s “Adoration of the Shepherds,” a religious painting executed in 1530 and later commonly known as “La Notte” ("night"), is the source of intense light that illumines the entire painting and miraculously controls forms and colors.

Correggio executes his most important church decoration, the “Assumption of the Virgin,” in the dome of the Cathedral of Parma in the years from 1526 to 1530.

Correggio adds to the illusion of movement in space by foreshortening the apostles, positioned around the drum of the dome and watching a ring of angels, swimming through clouds, carry the Virgin into the heavens.