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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Correggio Portrait of a Gentlewoman oil painting


Portrait of a Gentlewoman
1517-19 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
Painting ID::  510
Correggio
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
1517-19 The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
   
   
     

Correggio Allegory of Virtue oil painting


Allegory of Virtue
1632-34 Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  511
Correggio
Allegory of Virtue
1632-34 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

Correggio Allegory of Vice oil painting


Allegory of Vice
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  512
Correggio
Allegory of Vice
Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

Correggio Venus and Cupid with a Satyr oil painting


Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
1528 Musee du Louvre, Paris
Painting ID::  513
Correggio
Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
1528 Musee du Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

Correggio Ganymede oil painting


Ganymede
1531-32 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Painting ID::  514
Correggio
Ganymede
1531-32 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
   
   
     

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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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