CORREGGIO
Parma- Galleria
Nazionale – Camera della Badessa in San Paolo- Monastero di San
Giovanni Evangelista- Cattedrale
From 20 September
2008 to 25 January 2009, in the National Gallery rooms of the
Pilotta Palace and in Farnese Theatre, there will be the exhibition
of en ensemble of some of Correggio’s most important works, which
are today “transportable” and that are exhibited in the most
renowned museums of the world.
A superb exhibition which is part of a very thrilling path aimed at
admiring –concentrated within a few hundreds meters radius
surrounding the show - the three most representative Correggio’s
masterpieces: the sumptuous fresco cycles in the Dome of the
Cathedral, the ones in the two cupolas of St. John Evangelist
Monastery and the peerless ensemble represented by the decoration of
the Abbess Room in St. Paul.
We inform that there will be the possibility to go up to the Dome of
the Cathedral and to the cupola of St. John thanks to some special
structures especially prepared for this occasion, which will offer
the possibility to closely admire these two extraordinary
masterpieces.
ITINERARY
IN THE PARMA PROVINCE:
Art and castles in the time of Correggio