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Christ in Glory
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
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- 1520–1523
- Medium
- Red chalk and brown and gray wash, heightened with white bodycolor on pink ground; inscribed circle in brown ink; squared in red chalk
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Correggio made this drawing as a preparatory study for the fresco decorations in the church of Saint John the Evangelist in Parma. The fresco was meant to be viewed from underneath an arch, with the spectator looking upwards toward the majestic figure of Christ. Correggio stressed Christ's heavenly nature through subtle modulations of light and dark. He combined red chalk and opaque white to produce a range of pinks that enhance the drawing's delicacy and atmospheric effects. Watercolor wash in brown and gray and touches of opaque white describe figures and clouds, lending the drawing a soft, almost airy quality.
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