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Astonishing dynamic effects in dome decorations were achieved by Pordenone. In the dome of the Cappella della Concezione in the Chiesa dei Francescani in Cortemaggiore, he made it appear as if God the Father and a cloud of angels were plummeting down into the chapel itself through a painted opening in the heavens. Their flight cuts across the fictive architecture and aims for the altarpiece, in which St Anne conceives Mary, who has been miraculously freed of original sin. Thus the decoration of the dome and that of the wall form an illusionistic unity that draws the real space of the viewer into the action.
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