Antonio da Correggio

Antonio da Correggio ( Antonio Allegri actually just Correggio or il Correggio; * August 1489 in Correggio, † March 5, 1534 ibid ) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. He was mostly in Parma and Correggio (Emilia -Romagna) operates.

Life

The birthplace of Correggio, after which it is named, is located in Reggio Emilia. His father was a merchant. From 1503-1505 Correggio was in teaching with Francesco Bianchi Ferrara of Modena. In his earliest works influences of classicism of artists like Lorenzo Costa and Francesco Francia are detectable, which go back well at this time. 1506 Correggio was in Mantua, then he returned to Correggio, where he stayed until 1510. This period of his work is assigned the Adoration of the Child with Elizabeth and John, which influences Costas and Mantegna seem to show. 1514 he completed probably three Tondi for receipt of St. Andrea in Mantua. After the recent return to his hometown, he signed, now independent and increasingly famous, a contract for an altarpiece of the Madonna in the monastery of St. Francis (1514, now in the Dresden Gemäldegalerie ).

1516 remained Correggio in Parma, where he remained from then on the whole. Here he made friends with the Mannerist Michelangelo Anselmi. In 1519 he married Francesca di Girolamo Braghetis of Correggio. From this period are the Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Christ's farewell of Mary and the lost Madonna of Albinea. From the phase of his mature years already comes from Giorgio Vasari praised painting Noli me tangere ( approximately 1518, after another about 1522 to 1525 ), now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, the possession of the Emperor Charles V finally in the hands of King Philip IV of Spain arrived in 1636 and took his place in the sacristy of the Escorial.

Pablo Picasso quotes Correggio's masterpiece, which he must have learned during his studies at the Llotja in Madrid, in one of the most famous works from his Blue Period, the painting La Vie (1903 ), now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.

Correggio's first major commission was the decoration of the ceiling in the private dining room of the Abbess of St. Paul in Parma ( the Camera di San Paolo ). Next, he painted the Vision of St. John in Patmos for the cupola of San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma. Three years later he decorated the dome of the cathedral Parmaer with a surprising admission of Mary into heaven in Melozzoscher perspective (viewed from bottom to top). The two works had a revolutionary, illusionistic dome decoration and strongly influenced the later frescoes ( Cignani, Ferrari, Pordenone, Lanfranco, Baciccio ), va up by the grounding of spectators in a vortex, the apparent disappearance of the dome and the shear imaging views in divine infinity, as they meet again in the Baroque painting.

Style

The starting point of Correggio's art is controversial. Except by Costa and Mantegna he could have been da Vinci, also marked in essential impressions of light and shade ( chiaroscuro ) by Leonardo by Michelangelo and Raphael. 1518 he found his own style, which devoted expressions with almost baroque acting, lively movements connects. This also explains its large effect on Baroque masters such as Reni, the Carracci and Barocci.

Correggio's panel paintings develop diagonal compositions, the picturesque chiaroscuro run rich and valuable are color. His frescoes are particularly distinguished by the boldness of the perspective bottom view, by the mobility of the figures in air and light and suggestive power of illusion.

Other works

Significant of over 42 paintings by Correggio are obtained, inter alia, the Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria with Christ (ca. 1520), the Lamentation of Christ (ca. 1522), The Martyrdom of Four Saints (ca. 1524-25 ) that Mary with Saint Jerome ( Il Giorno, 1527-28 ), the Adoration of the Shepherds ( Holy Night ) (La Notte, 1528-30, Dresden, Gemäldegalerie ), and Jupiter and Io ( 1531-32, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum ).

Pictures

(Selection)

Jupiter and Antiope, about 1528

Madonna with Jesus and John the Baptist, ca 1516

The Madonna of St. Jerome ( The Day ), 1527-28

Noli me tangere, about 1518