Antonio da Correggio

Antonio da Correggio Antonio da Correggio was the best painter of the Parma School despite barely achieving middle age and leaving behind only about 40 certified works. As one of the most important painters of the High Renaissance, Correggio borrowed ideas from Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Mantegna while still managing to produce oil paintings and frescos with his unmistakable characteristic style. His use of chiaroscuro, sharp geometric distortion, trompe l'oeil illusions, and other perspectival methods really worked together to give his religious and mythic narratives a feeling of pictorial drama that predated the arrival of the Baroque and Rococo periods....
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