Correggio

Italian 1489-1534 Correggio Locations Italian painter and draughtsman. Apart from his Venetian contemporaries, he was the most important northern Italian painter of the first half of the 16th century. His best-known works are the illusionistic frescoes in the domes of S Giovanni Evangelista and the cathedral in Parma, where he worked from 1520 to 1530. The combination of technical virtuosity and dramatic excitement in these works ensured their importance for later generations of artists. His altarpieces of the same period are equally original and ally intimacy of feeling with an ecstatic quality that seems to anticipate the Baroque. In his paintings of mythological subjects, especially those executed after his return to Correggio around 1530, he created images whose sensuality and abandon have been seen as foreshadowing the Rococo. Vasari wrote that Correggio was timid and virtuous, that family responsibilities made him miserly and that he died from a fever after walking in the sun. He left no letters and, apart from Vasari account, nothing is known of his character or personality beyond what can be deduced from his works. The story that he owned a manuscript of Bonaventura Berlinghieri Geographia, as well as his use of a latinized form of Allegri (Laetus), and his naming of his son after the humanist Pomponius Laetus, all suggest that he was an educated man by the standards of painters in this period. The intelligence of his paintings supports this claim. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Correggio was to have an enormous posthumous reputation. He was revered by Federico Barocci and the Carracci, and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries his reputation rivalled that of Raphael.


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Correggio Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis oil


Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis
Painting ID::  31604
Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis
mk74 123.5x106.5cm Florence Uffizi Gallery
mk74 123.5x106.5cm Florence Uffizi_Gallery
   
   
     

Correggio Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John oil


Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John
Painting ID::  31605
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John
mk74 68x49cm Milan Museo del Castello Sforzesco
mk74 68x49cm Milan Museo_del_Castello_Sforzesco
   
   
     

Correggio Details of Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis oil


Details of Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis
Painting ID::  31606
Details of Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis
mk74 123.5x106.5cm Florence, Uffizi Gallery
mk74 123.5x106.5cm Florence, Uffizi_Gallery
   
   
     

Correggio Campori Madonna oil


Campori Madonna
Painting ID::  31607
Campori Madonna
mk74 58x45cm Modena Galleria Estense
mk74 58x45cm Modena Galleria_Estense
   
   
     

Correggio Adoration of the Magi oil


Adoration of the Magi
Painting ID::  31608
Adoration of the Magi
mk74 84x108cm Milan, Pinacoteca di Brera
mk74 84x108cm Milan, Pinacoteca_di_Brera
   
   
     

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     Italian 1489-1534 Correggio Locations Italian painter and draughtsman. Apart from his Venetian contemporaries, he was the most important northern Italian painter of the first half of the 16th century. His best-known works are the illusionistic frescoes in the domes of S Giovanni Evangelista and the cathedral in Parma, where he worked from 1520 to 1530. The combination of technical virtuosity and dramatic excitement in these works ensured their importance for later generations of artists. His altarpieces of the same period are equally original and ally intimacy of feeling with an ecstatic quality that seems to anticipate the Baroque. In his paintings of mythological subjects, especially those executed after his return to Correggio around 1530, he created images whose sensuality and abandon have been seen as foreshadowing the Rococo. Vasari wrote that Correggio was timid and virtuous, that family responsibilities made him miserly and that he died from a fever after walking in the sun. He left no letters and, apart from Vasari account, nothing is known of his character or personality beyond what can be deduced from his works. The story that he owned a manuscript of Bonaventura Berlinghieri Geographia, as well as his use of a latinized form of Allegri (Laetus), and his naming of his son after the humanist Pomponius Laetus, all suggest that he was an educated man by the standards of painters in this period. The intelligence of his paintings supports this claim. Relatively unknown in his lifetime, Correggio was to have an enormous posthumous reputation. He was revered by Federico Barocci and the Carracci, and throughout the 17th and 18th centuries his reputation rivalled that of Raphael.

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