How does this artwork elucidate its Description and style?
Corregio had been attempting to find a less intellectual, artificial style than his contemporary Mannerists—he wanted to find a way of expressing religious art with a fresh and persuasive naturalism. Representing a young Mary, almost adolescent, that has just put down her sewing tools, Correggio places a religious story in the simple frame of everyday life.
The fulcrum of the painting is represented in the affectionate rapport that links Marie and the Baby Jesus; she is trying to dress him with the blue shirt she has just finished sewing. The sewing basket with scissors, clearly visible, opens the painting on the left and gives the symbolic painting a realistic effect.  Mary evidently prepared for Jesus a double vestment, which might symbolize his dual nature of humanity and divinity. Jesus' composition hints at his fate. His arms are outstretched in a cross, while his right hand gives a benediction with three raised fingers a symbol of the Trinity.The background, where there is a glimpse of Saint Joseph, can be compared to Northern European works, particularly an Dürer engraving that Correggio might have known, The Rest during the Flight to Egypt.
benediction Baby Jesus Trinity Mannerist Correggio Dürer