Assumption of the virgin painting correggio biography

Correggio's Assumption of the Virgin was created shortly after Luther's Protestant Reformation of - an event that turned the Biblical art of the cinquecento into a struggle for souls, as the Church in Rome tried to regather lost support.

Although the campaign did not start properly until the Council of Trent (), Correggio's mural painting reaffirmed key themes of Catholic dogma - central features of later Catholic Counter-Reformation Art - including the doctrines of Transubstantiation, of Mary's status as a Holy Intercessor, and of the Church's role in human redemption.

In the circumstances, the joyful reunion of the Virgin Mary with her son also symbolized the return of Northern congregations to the one true Church, as well as the return of Parma to the Papal States (the land ruled by the Pope).

The narrative of the Assumption unfolds as the spectator walks down the central aisle (the nave), towards