Experts' Choice Award Camera di San Paolo e Cella di Santa Caterina
What the experts agree on
A hidden gem for Correggio fans: this former abbess's dining room holds his exquisite, surprisingly sensual mythological frescoes—Diana, the Graces, the Fates—in a once-cloistered convent setting.
“The Camera di San Paolo in the convent of the same name, displays frescoes by the prolific Correggio.”
– Lonely Planet
Fodor's "Mythological scenes depict glorious frescoes of the Triumphs of the Goddess Diana, the Three Graces, and the Three Fates."
Travel + Leisure "Two exquisitely frescoed rooms by Renaissance master and Emilia-Romagna native Antonio da Correggio." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"The Abbess's dining room in the Convento di San Paolo was decorated in monumental style by Correggio in 1519-20...delicate and sensual character of these paintings comes as a surprise" Full review
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Note the frescoes in the vault, a luminous mythological creation in which the influence of Mantegna is evident.
Frommer's "San Paolo was one of many well-endowed convents where women of means who for one reason or another could not marry spent their lives in relative comfort." Full review
