Correggio (The Library of Great Masters) - Softcover

Schianchi, Lucia Fornari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 187835146X ISBN 13: 9781878351463

Publisher: Riverside Book Company, 1994

Synopsis

Antonio Allegri was born in Corregio in c.1489, and died at the age of 45. His training and early influences are uncertain, but his early works are reminiscent of the styles of Andrea Mantegna and Lorenzo Costa. Correggio explores the painter's works in great detail, from his early paintings, to his great work in the dome of Parma Cathedral, painted between 1526 and 1530. The contradiction between Correggio's religious works and his profane paintings of scenes from mythology is also examined.

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Correggio is the twenty-second artist to be profiled in this reasonably priced yet high-quality paperback series devoted to artists of the Italian Renaissance. Each volume in the Library of Great Masters provides succinct historical and biographical information about the artist and his work, accompanied by approximately 100 colorplates including many full-page (81/4 inches by 11 inches) reproductions. The series, produced and originally published in Italy, covers the work of such well-known artists as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Donatello, and Raphael as well as painters who deserve greater recognition, including Pontormo, the subject of a forthcoming volume. These color-rich and finely detailed books are excellent introductions to the lives and work of remarkable and enduringly influential Renaissance artists and contain substantially more examples of their paintings and sculptures than a chapter on Italian art in a standard art-history textbook. And the price can't be beat. Donna Seaman

Edition details

• Publisher: Riverside Book Company
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 187835146X
• ISBN 13: 9781878351463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80