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This artist painted Diana over a fireplace among his frescoes for the bedroom of an abbess, the Camera di San Paolo. In a series preceded by his Venus and Cupid with a Satyr, this artist included a painting of a stormy cloud with a faintly visible humanoid face embracing a woman. This teacher of Parmigianino painted John the Evangelist so that he was only visible from a church’s choir in one fresco. Federico II Gonzaga commissioned this painter’s four-painting (-5[1])series (-5[1])that includes Danaë (“DAN-uh-ee”) and Jupiter and Io. (10[1]-5[1])In a major work by this artist, (10[1]-5[1])swirling layers of clouds (10[1])disguise the octagonal architecture on which they are (-5[1])painted. For 10 points, name this Italian Mannerist painter of The (-5[1])Loves of Jupiter series, who used di sotto in su in his illusionistic ceiling frescoes, including (-5[1])his Assumption of the Virgin for Parma Cathedral. ■END■ (0[23])

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