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Correggio Biography

orig. Antonio Allegri

(1494 - 1534)

Related Works

c.1510 Madonna and Child in Glory (Uffizi, Florence)
1514–7 Four Saints (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
1510–4 The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)

1514–7 Christ Taking Leave of His Mother (National Gallery, London)
c.1515 Rest During the Flight into Egypt (Uffizi, Florence)
c.1523 The Martyrdom of Four Saints (Galleria Nazionale, Parma, Italy)
c.1524 Adoration of the Child (Uffizi, Florence)
c.1525 Madonna of the Bowl (Galleria Nazionale, Parma)
1525 Holy Family with St James (Hampton Court, Middlesex)
c.1530 Jupiter and Io (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
c.1530 The Adoration of the Shepherds (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)

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(born August 1494, Correggio, Modena—died March 5, 1534, Correggio) Italian painter. He studied the work of Andrea Mantegna in Mantua and was influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. On a visit to Rome he was inspired by the Vatican frescoes of Michelangelo and Raphael. By 1518 he was in Parma, the scene of his greatest activity. His first large-scale commission there was the ceiling decoration of the Camera di San Paolo, in the convent of St. Paul ( 1518–19). His fresco in the dome of Parma Cathedral ( 1525–30) features the dramatic illusionistic style that influenced dome painting in the Baroque period. His use of bold foreshortening, his brilliant, highly original approach to colour and light, and the exquisite grace of his figures established him as one of the most inventive artists of the High Renaissance.