Mural painting of the funeral chapel of Andrea Mantegna

Correggio's mural painting for the funeral chapel of Andrea Mantegna, created around 1507, is one of his earliest documented works. The commission to decorate the chapel of the great master who had recently died was a remarkable tribute to the young Correggio's emerging talent in Mantua Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century, offered greater flexibility for large-scale compositions It is now held at the Basilica, where the work remains in its original devotion

This early fresco work shows Correggio's initial engagement with mural painting that would later reach its apogee in the dome frescoes of Parma, with the influence of Mantegna's own illusionistic techniques still visible.