High Italian Renaissance
Late
"Gothic art" of the north
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born: Correggio, Modena [now in Reggio Emilia, Italy]; August 1494
died: Correggio, Modena [now in Reggio Emilia, Italy]; 5 March 1534
His father, Pellegrino Allegri, was a tradesman living in Correggio, the small city in which Antonio was born and died. He was not a self-taught artist. His early work shows an educated knowledge of optics, perspective, architecture, sculpture, and anatomy. His instruction probably came from his uncle, Lorenzo Allegri, a painter from Correggio. He probably studied in Modena, around 1503, and then went to Mantua, arriving before 1506, when Andrea Mantegna died. Where Mantegna uses a tightly controlled line to define form, Correggio, like Leonardo, prefers chiaroscuro, a use of shade to imply form. It is also fairly certain that early in his career he saw the Vatican frescos of Michelangelo and Raphael. |
alt spelling: corregio coreggio
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Adoration of the Magi |
The Rest on the Flight |
Noli me Tangere |
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Ecce Homo |
1530 Gemaldegalleries Dresden, Germany. |
Deposition from the Cross |
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The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine |
The Mystic Marriage |
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The Education of Cupid |
A Gentlewoman |
Other works:
High Italian Renaissance
Late "Gothic
art" of the north