Correggio
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Artists, Artisans, Painting, Painters, Drawing
- Curriculum: Italian History, Renaissance History
Article abstract: Correggio executed frescoes and paintings of religious and mythological subjects that demonstrate his skills as one of the greatest masters of the High Renaissance. Correggio’s innovations in composition, expressiveness, and particularly in the illusionistic foreshortening of figures seen from below (di sotto in su) were to have a tremendous influence on later Baroque painters.
Early Life
Antonio Allegri was born in the town from which his name is taken, Correggio, Italy. The date of his birth to Pellegrino Allegri and Bernardina...
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