Correggio (Antonio Allegri)
Italian Artist · 1489–1534
7 works across 2 collections on LinkedCulture
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
Works
View as IIIF ↗A Man Riding a Bull, and Other Figures
Getty Museum · about 1517–1519
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Christ in Glory
Getty Museum · 1520–1523
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Head of Christ
Getty Museum · about 1525–1530
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Saint Matthew
Getty Museum · about 1523
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Saints Peter, Martha, Mary Magdalen, and Leonard
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1515
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Study of Four Saints
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1525–34
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The Annunciation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · ca. 1522–25
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