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 Madonna worshipping the Child oil


Madonna worshipping the Child
Painting ID::  31639 		Madonna worshipping the Child
mk74 81x67cm Florence,uffizi
mk74 81x67cm Florence,uffizi
   
   
     
Correggio Madonna del Latte oil


Madonna del Latte
Painting ID::  31640 		Madonna del Latte
mk74 68.5x57cm Budapest,Szepmuveszeti Muzeum
mk74 68.5x57cm Budapest,Szepmuveszeti_Muzeum
   
   
     
Correggio Madonna della Cesta oil


Madonna della Cesta
Painting ID::  31641 		Madonna della Cesta
mk74 34x25cm London, National Gallery
mk74 34x25cm London, National_Gallery
   
   
     
Correggio Madonna with Saint Sebastian oil


Madonna with Saint Sebastian
Painting ID::  31642 		Madonna with Saint Sebastian
mk74 265x161cm Dresden,Gemaldeglerie
mk74 265x161cm Dresden,Gemaldeglerie
   
   
     
Correggio Wedding of Saint Catherine oil


Wedding of Saint Catherine
Painting ID::  31643 		Wedding of Saint Catherine
mk74 105x102cm Paris,Louvre
mk74 105x102cm Paris,Louvre
   
   
     
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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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