D. <em>Assumption of the Virgin</em>. The named fresco was painted by Correggio to decorate the dome of Cathedral of Parma, in Italy; the painting took nearly 8 years to be completed, becoming the inspiration for the <em>di sotto in su </em>style of decoration. The style was largely used by Baroque artists and Correggio himself, consisting in the use of foreshortening (a technique that makes the object to appear smaller than it is), to create internal decorations for churches that gives the illusion of perspective or deepness in what is basically a flat space.
An economic slump due to the government over spendings in Vietnam
He focused on creating a model communist state, he abolished all privately owned farms and replaced them with collectives, he outlined several five year plans to direct industrialization.
