Corrège

Biography

His/her father, Pellegrino Allegri, notable of Correggio, intend it for a liberal profession, but Antonio takes taste with painting in contact with his uncle Lorenzo who is its first Master.

He continues his formation with Correggio near Antonio Bartolotti (~1450-1527), painter of foreground in this city at the beginning of the 16th century, and becomes his assistant. In 1511, fleeing the Plague which prevails in Correggio, it goes to Mantoue where it discovers and studies works of Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) and works with Lorenzo Costa Old the (1460-1535) author of paintings for Studiolo of Isabelle d' Este.

Corrège which has an inventive and sensual temperament painted for Frederic II of Mantoue of the mythological series erotic: Io , Léda and Danaé (1530).

In spite of a voyage to Rome, he lives folded up in his province what has enables to him to be different while holding account from creations of its counterparts such as Mantegna, Léonard de Vinci, Raphaël and Michel-Angel.

In 1519, one orders to him from Parma the decoration of a vault to the Saint-Paul convent; it is about a work made up of sixteen compartments into ombelle furnished with fruits in Guirlande S, Putti represent the ages of the man. This work carried out at the twenty years age, which resembles a Sixtine of imagination enables him to be fixed at Parma. Its original talent appears in large the Fresques that it carries out there (frescos of the church Midsummer's Day the Evangelist, 1520-1524; the Assumption of the Virgin, cupola of Duomo, 1524-1530). It also paints religious fabrics, in which it uses with wonder the Clearly-obscure . Some say that it is one of the precursors of the Baroque.

It has as pupils Antonio Bernieri and Francesco Mazzola, known as “the Parmesan” which survives to him only six years (1503-1540).

Some works of Corrège

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