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Correggio, life and works of the Emilian Renaissance painter


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Antonio Allegri, better known as Correggio, was one of the greatest Renaissance artists of northern Italy. Here is his life and works.

“Most singular painter,” Giorgio Vasari called him, and Antonio Allegri, better known as il Corre ggio (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534) from the town where he was born in 1489, is one of the most singular painters in the history of art. The artist began his career observing the results of the painting of Andrea Mantegna (Isola di Carturo, 1431 - Mantua, 1506), from whom he derived the harsh sign (which would later become soft and delicate thanks to his encounter with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael) as well as the perspective illusionism, and he was able to rework the different sources from which he drew suggestions to derive a very original and innovative style, which made Correggio one of the geniuses of painting, not only of the 16th century. With his spectacular frescoes (read an in-depth look at the naturalness o

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Summary of Antonio da Correggio

For an artist who barely saw middle age, and who left behind just 40 or so authenticated works, Antonio da Correggio still ranked as the preeminent painter of the Parma School. As one of the most influential painters of the High Renaissance, Correggio absorbed elements of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Mantegna while still managing to create oil paintings and frescos with a distinctive signature style. Indeed, his use of chiaroscuro, intense foreshortening, trompe l'oeil illusions, and other perspectival devices combined to infuse his religious and mythological narratives with a sense of pictorial drama that anticipated the emergence of the Baroque and Rococo styles. Correggio was also considered a sublime colorist who executed his highly sensuous mythological narratives with such an exquisite subtlety of touch they appealed even to the most conservative tastes of his day.

Accomplishments

  • Early works, such as Madonna and Child with Saint Francis (1514), showed Correggio to be a prodigious talent whose work fully complemented that of t
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    Antonio da Correggio

    Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)

    "Correggio" redirects here. For other uses, see Correggio (disambiguation).

    Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also, ,[1][2][3]Italian:[korˈreddʒo]) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. He is considered a master of chiaroscuro.

    Early life

    Antonio Allegri was born in Correggio, a small town near Reggio Emilia. His date of birth is uncertain (around 1489). His father was a merchant.[4] Otherwise little is known about Correggio's early life or training. It is, however, often assumed that he had his first artistic education from his fathe

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