The Vision of St. John the Evangelist at Patmos (1520-1522) is a series of frescoes by the Italian late Renaissance

Renaissance

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 artist Antonio Allegri da Correggio. It occupies the interior of the dome, and the relative pendentives, of the Benedictine church of San Giovanni Evangelista

San Giovanni Evangelista (Parma)

San Giovanni Evangelista is a church in Parma, northern Italy, part of a complex also including a Benedictine convent and grocery.-History:Works for the abbey and church were started in the 10th century over a pre-existing oratory entitled to St. Colombanus...

 of Parma

Parma

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, Italy

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The centre of the cupola is occupied by an illusionistic space based on series of concentric planes indicated by the clouds, from which the apostles stretch out. Starting from the border of the dome, the clouds thin out and open to a shiny light Christ descending towards the floor of the nave. The scene is a faithful rendering of John

John the Evangelist

Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...

's Book of Revelation

Book of Revelation

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(I,7). The figure of St. John leans from the drum of the dome. This part of the fresco was hidden to the people present in the church, but visible to the monks in the choir and under the dome.

In the four pendentives Correggio painted, coupled, the Four Evangelists and the Four Doctors of the Church

Doctor of the Church

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. These are:

• St. Matthew with an angel;
• St. Mark with a winged lion;
• St. Luke with an ox;
• St. John
  John the Evangelist
  Saint John the Evangelist is the conventional name for the author of the Gospel of John...
  
   with an eagle

and, respectively,

• St. Jerome with the white beard and red garments;
• St. Ambrose with a staff;
• St. Gregory
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   with the Papal tiara;
• St. Augustine
  Augustine of Hippo
  Augustine of Hippo , also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed, was Bishop of Hippo Regius . He was a Latin-speaking philosopher and theologian who lived in the Roman Africa Province...
  
  portrayed counting together with St. John.

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