Correggio - Finestre sull'Arte

Correggio in Dresden: the first retrospective outside Italy at the Gemäldegalerie

At the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Old Masters Gallery) in Dresden, within the Zwinger complex, the first-ever retrospective exhibition outside Italy dedicated to Antonio Allegri known as il Correggio (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534), titled Corregg...
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A portrait of Correggio. Gianfrancesco Gonzaga is the enigmatic "gentleman with the petrarchino"

Since my studies have sometimes led me to take an interest in Correggio's particular subjects and in his relations with the Gonzaga courts, with which he had an evocative continuity of relations, I can now present a result that illuminates a work of ...
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Correggio, the fleeing youth: the Gospel in painting and the theological center of the painting

All of Correggio's frescoes and almost all of his mobile paintings are bearers of particular meanings, not often easy to decipher, that explicate values of a Christian scope and that flow from deep meditations which lead to his well-known composition...
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Palazzo Barberini presents book on Correggio's "Unnamed Young Man"

OnFriday, June 13, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., in the Conference Room on the second floor of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, there will be a presentation of the volume Correggio: the Young Unnamed from the Este, Sforza and Barberini Collections. Studies and Resea...
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Correggio's Adoration of the Child: an intimate and universal scene of the miracle of the Nativity

There is all the essence of Christmas, understood as birth, in the Madonna in Adoration of the Child by Antonio Allegri, known as Correggio (Correggio, c. 1489 - 1534) from his hometown in the lower Reggio area. An intimate and collected scene but at...
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The walk in the sky. Correggio's prodigy in Parma in Lucio Rossi's photos.

Yes, to Correggio some of those pious monks of the Abbey of San Giovanni in Parma, in 1519, might well have advised him to depict an Ascension up there, in that white dome just finished "more romano": so much so that the still young painter, just out...
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Parma exults by opening its doors wide again to Correggio

Next September 8, the city of Parma will inaugurate an exceptional and very singular exhibition: an unforgettable Fifth Centenary of Correggio's creative cycle. Indeed, the "secularia quinta" of the Painter's extraordinary presence on the Italian art...
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A Villa of New Life for Castel Gandolfo. Correggio and Raphael in the papal palace

Excluded for centuries to the frequentation of citizens and people the summer retreat of the Roman Pontiffs, set as a gem on the shore of Lake Albano, knows from today a new and welcoming role of choral invitation as a gaudy seat with its furnished h...
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