Ellis K. Waterhouse
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LOCATION: Oxford, United Kingdom
Director of Studies, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, 1970–73. Barber Professor of Fine Arts; Director, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, England, 1952–70. Author of Italian Baroque Painting and others.
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Correggio was the most important Renaissance painter of the school of Parma, whose late works influenced the style of many Baroque and Rococo artists. His fresco Assumption of the Virgin (completed c. 1530) for the cathedral of Parma is perhaps one of his most famous pieces, especially known for…
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