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A Man Riding a Bull, and Other Figures
Creator
Correggio (Antonio Allegri)Italian Artist · 1489–1534
All works by this person →Born Antonio Allegri, Correggio was named after the town of his birth. His ability to manipulate light and shade to create luminous atmospheric effects resulted in some of the most sumptuous religious paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Giorgio Vasari, a sixteenth-century biographer of artists, wrote, "everything that is to be seen by his hand is admired as something divine." Correggio was profo
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1517–1519
- Medium
- Black chalk with light brown wash
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Correggio softly contoured and modeled the figures in the foreground with pronounced *sfumato* , especially the man on the bull *.* He typically employed this sensuous handling of figures, which he had adopted from Leonardo da Vinci. In contrast with the careful modeling of form and detail in the figures, Correggio rendered the landscape with quick gestures of chalk. This is a rare drawing from his early years and one of the few he made using black chalk. Scholars are uncertain about the subject of this drawing, but the prominence of a nude man riding a bull in the foreground and figures massed in the background suggests a literary source in Greek and Roman mythology.
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