CORREGGIO

born August 1494, Correggio, Modena died March 5, 1534, Correggio byname of Antonio Allegri most important Renaissance painter of the school of Parma, whose late works influenced the style of many Baroque and Rococo artists. His first important works are the convent ceiling of S. Paolo (c. 1519), Parma, depicting allegories on Humanist themes, and the frescoes in S. Giovanni Evangelista, Parma (152023), and the cathedral of Parma (152630). The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (c. 1526) is among the finest of his poetic late oil paintings. Additional reading C. Ricci, Correggio (Eng. trans. 1930), out of date but the fullest available account; A.E. Popham, Correggio's Drawings (1956), definitive and with catalog; Sylvia de Vito Battaglia, Correggio Bibliografia (1934), definitive bibliography up to 1934: for later works of consequence, see A. Bevilacqua and A.C. Quintavalle, L'opera completa del Correggio (1970), the only book that reproduces everything plausibly ascribed to Correggio (in Italian); E. Panofsky, The Iconography of Correggio's Camera di San Paolo (1961), the most stimulating book written about Correggio.