Correggio Details of Adoration of the Magi Painting ID:: 31609 new4/Correggio-547885.jpg
Details of Adoration of the Magi mk74
84x108cm
Milan,
Pinacoteca di Brera
Correggio Portrait of a Gentlewoman Painting ID:: 31611 new4/Correggio-657588.jpg
Portrait of a Gentlewoman mk74
103x87.5cm
St Petersburg,
Hermitage
Correggio View of the Camera di San Paolo and of the vault Painting ID:: 31612 new4/Correggio-377569.jpg
View of the Camera di San Paolo and of the vault mk74
Parma
Correggio View of the Camera di San Paolo and of the vault Painting ID:: 31613 new4/Correggio-685742.jpg
View of the Camera di San Paolo and of the vault mk74
Parma
Correggio Detail of an oval with a putto embracing a dog Painting ID:: 31614 new4/Correggio-789634.jpg
Detail of an oval with a putto embracing a dog mk74
Parma
Camera di San Paolo
Correggio Two ovals depicting a putto with a stag's head and a putto with a greyhound Painting ID:: 31615 new4/Correggio-533924.jpg
Two ovals depicting a putto with a stag's head and a putto with a greyhound mk74
Parma,
Camera di San Paolo
Correggio Two ovals depicting a putto with a stag's head and a putto with a greyhound Painting ID:: 31616 new4/Correggio-466695.jpg
Two ovals depicting a putto with a stag's head and a putto with a greyhound mk74
Parma,
Camera di San Paolo
Correggio Diana departing for the Hunt,fireplace Painting ID:: 31617 new4/Correggio-665494.jpg
Diana departing for the Hunt,fireplace mk74
Parma,
Camera di San Paolo
Correggio Passing away of Saint john Painting ID:: 31618 new4/Correggio-698634.jpg
Passing away of Saint john mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Vision of Saint john on the Island of Patmos,cupola Painting ID:: 31619 new4/Correggio-937842.jpg
Vision of Saint john on the Island of Patmos,cupola mk74
Parma
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Pendentive with Saint Jerome and Saint Mattehew Painting ID:: 31620 new4/Correggio-842234.jpg
Pendentive with Saint Jerome and Saint Mattehew mk74
Parma
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Detail of the cupola with the apostles Peter and Paul Painting ID:: 31621 new4/Correggio-687656.jpg
Detail of the cupola with the apostles Peter and Paul mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great Painting ID:: 31622 new4/Correggio-572844.jpg
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
Correggio Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great Painting ID:: 31623 new4/Correggio-362595.jpg
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
Correggio Details of the cupola with the apostles Philip and Thaddeus,James the Less and Thomas,Andrew and Jomes the Great Painting ID:: 31624 new4/Correggio-698327.jpg
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
Correggio Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side Painting ID:: 31625 new4/Correggio-754639.jpg
Parmigianino Detail of the putto between the pendentives of the north side mk74
Parma
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew Painting ID:: 31626 new4/Correggio-676228.jpg
Detail of the putto to the side of the pendentive with Jerome and Matthew mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista
Correggio Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice Painting ID:: 31627 new4/Correggio-364622.jpg
Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
Correggio Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice Painting ID:: 31628 new4/Correggio-587993.jpg
Frieze depicting the Christian Sacrifice mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista,
chapter house
Correggio Coronation of the Virgin Painting ID:: 31629 new4/Correggio-366534.jpg
Coronation of the Virgin mk74
215.5x330cm
Parma,
Galleria Nazionale
Correggio Sinopia of the Coronation of the Virgin Painting ID:: 31630 new4/Correggio-834226.jpg
Sinopia of the Coronation of the Virgin mk74
Parma
Biblitoteca Palatina
Correggio Lunette with Saint John the Evangelist Painting ID:: 31631 new4/Correggio-395675.jpg
Lunette with Saint John the Evangelist mk74
Parma,
Church of San Giovanni Evangelista above the entrance to the colisters
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.