The light is soft and illuminates there pale bodies. The Depth of Field seems to be higher up from the background. The landscape in the foreground is also rich with cool colors, like the blue sky and roaring mountains, and the green leaves on the far tree with undertones of gold. The green grass shows texture and tone, also with undertones of gold. The vines on the Lemon tree have distinct lines in them and as you go from one spectrum of the tree there becomes play with light and dark contrast. This work seems highly finished to me, as if Correggio went in knowing exactly what wanted to paint. Correggio has various paintings of the Madonna and Child with young Saint John the Baptist, but as I compared his works I like this one the best. The colors are more vibrant, the textures seem so real that you want to touch the painting; the play amongst the figures within the work seems so genuine. The contrast of the dark tree against the light sky and background landscape creates the illusion of depth and that this is a three-dimensional form. The forms are defined by lines and soft, smooth brush
The light is soft and illuminates there pale bodies. The Depth of Field seems to be higher up from the background. The landscape in the foreground is also rich with cool colors, like the blue sky and roaring mountains, and the green leaves on the far tree with undertones of gold. The green grass shows texture and tone, also with undertones of gold. The vines on the Lemon tree have distinct lines in them and as you go from one spectrum of the tree there becomes play with light and dark contrast. This work seems highly finished to me, as if Correggio went in knowing exactly what wanted to paint. Correggio has various paintings of the Madonna and Child with young Saint John the Baptist, but as I compared his works I like this one the best. The colors are more vibrant, the textures seem so real that you want to touch the painting; the play amongst the figures within the work seems so genuine. The contrast of the dark tree against the light sky and background landscape creates the illusion of depth and that this is a three-dimensional form. The forms are defined by lines and soft, smooth brush