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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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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
Painting ID:: 31624
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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
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Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side
mk74
Parma
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Painting ID:: 31625
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Parmigianino_Detail_of_the_putto_between_the_pendentives_of_the_north_side
mk74
Parma
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
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Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Painting ID:: 31626
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Detail_of_the_putto_to_the_side_of_the_pendentive_with_Jerome_and_Matthew
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
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Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
Painting ID:: 31627
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Frieze_depicting_the_Christian_Sacrifice
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
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Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
Painting ID:: 31628
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Frieze_depicting_the_Christian_Sacrifice
mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
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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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