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 Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great oil


Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great
Painting ID::  31624 		Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great
mk74 Parma, Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
mk74 Parma, Church_of_San_Giovanni_Evangelista
   
   
     
Correggio Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side oil


Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side
Painting ID::  31625 		Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side
mk74 Parma Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
mk74 Parma Church_of_San_Giovanni_Evangelista
   
   
     
Correggio Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew oil


Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew
Painting ID::  31626 		Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew
mk74 Parma, Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
mk74 Parma, Church_of_San_Giovanni_Evangelista
   
   
     
Correggio Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice oil


Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
Painting ID::  31627 		Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
mk74 Parma, Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, chapter house
   
   
     
Correggio Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice oil


Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
Painting ID::  31628 		Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
mk74 Parma, Church of San Giovanni Evangelista, chapter house
   
   
     
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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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