Correggio, Antonio

ALLEGRI, commonly called CORREGGIO from his birthplace, was born in 1494, and appears to have first studied painting under Tonino Bar to lot to of Correggio; in 1519 he was established as a painter at Parma. The celebrated cupola at Parma was commenced in 15:20, and in 1522 C. undertook the great works of the dome of the cathedral; in the former representing the ascension of Christ, and in the latter, the a umption of the Virgin, both of which series are now admirably engraved by the Cav. Toschi. The frescoes of the cathedral, left unfinished by C., were completed by his pupil, Giorgio Gandini. C. died of a fever at his native place in 1534, in his 41st year. C.'s great reputation rests chiefly upon the above-mentioned frescoes; but, he had executed many excellent oil pictures before he proceeded to Parma in 1519. All his pictures are conspicuous for a remarkable play of foreshortening, a powerful and delicate chiar-oscuro, or light and shade, and a graceful grouping of forms. The Notte, or Night, of C., in the Gallery of Dresden, is a picture of the nativity of Christ, in which the light proceeds from the body of the infant Saviour.