# Madonna della Scala [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CORREGGIO]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Fresco, 196 x 141,8 cm ## Commentary This fragmented fresco was detached from the facade of the oratory of the Blessed Virgin Mary \(formerly at Porta San Michele\) in 1812. Vasari described the fresco as follows: "Over the gates of the city Correggio also painted a Madonna and Child; it is astonishing to see the lovely colouring of this fresco which has won him the most enthusiastic praise, even from passing strangers, who have seen nothing else of his." ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Vices]() - [Allegory of Virtues]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Camera di San Paolo]() - [Camera di San Paolo]() - [Ceiling decoration \(detail\)]() - [Ceiling decoration \(partial view\)]() - [Ceiling decoration]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()