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Early Life
Works in Parma
Interior Decoration
Mythological Series
Evaluation
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Correggio was born around 1489
What is Correggio's birth date ?
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1516
What is the year in which Correggio took residence for the rest of his Career?
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The next piece he painted after the ceiling of the private dining salon of the abbess was the illusionistic vision of St. John on Patmos
What is the title of the next work that he did after completing the ceiling for the abbess of St. Paul?
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The Loves of Jupiter as described in Odin's metamorphoses.
What is the theme of Correggio'snow famous set of paintings/series which are unrelated to his religious output?
100
He is remembered as a shadowy, melancholic, and introverted character, traits possibly conditioned by his birth into a large and poor family.
What is the way with which Correggio's comtemporaries remember him and why?
200
He was apprenticed to Francesco Bianchi Ferrara of Modena.
What is the name of Correggio's artistic mentor and teacher?
200
Parma
What is the name of the city Correggio remained for the rest of his artistic career?
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The dome of the Cathedral of Parma.
What is the name of the dome that he decorated three years after doing the Illusionistic vision of St. John on Paymos?
200
Federico II Gozaga of Mantua.
What is the name of the patron who commissioned the voluptuous series/set of paintings.
200
Enigmatic and eclectic and it is not always possible to identify a stylistic link between his paintings who appears to have emerged out of no major apprenticeship and to have had little immediate influence in terms of apprenticed successors.
What is the kind of Painter Correggio may be described as?
300
He learned the classicism of artists like Lorenzo Costa and Francesco Francia.
What is the style he learned while working in Francesco Bianchi's workshop?
300
Michelangelo Anselmi.
What is the name of the Mannerist painter he was soon to befriend?
300
The Assumption of the Virgin.
What is the startling theme that he utilized in his decoration of the Dome of the Parma cathedral?
300
Federico II Gonzaga of Mantua's Private Ovid room in the Palazzo Te.
What is the name of the private place where the set/series of paintings were made for?
300
They are now considered to have been revolutionary and influential on subequent artists.
What is the way Correggio's works are now considered?
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Influences of Costa and Mantua are seen in his painting titled, The Adoration of the Child with St. Elizabeth and John were the paintings he made in 1510 showed clear influences from Costa and Mantegna.
What is observed/seen in his work of 1510 upon his return from Mantua?
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In 1519, he got married to Girolama Francesca di Braghetis, who died in 1529.
What is the name of Correggio's wife and in when did they get married and when did she die?
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The massing of spectators in the vortex, creating both narrative and decoration, the illusionistic obliteration of the architectural roof plane, thrusting perspective towards devine infinity.
What is the style/method used for the decoration of the dome?
400
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
What is the name of the individual the set of paintings made for Federico Gonzaga were eventually given to?
400
A century/100 years.
What is the time period after Correggio's death that his work became well known to Vasari?
500
The Three Tondos for the entrance of the church of Saint Andreain Mantua were completed in 1514
What is the year and the work that he probably finished prior to his return to Correggio as an independent?
500
The decoration of the ceiling of the private dining salon of the mother-superior (abbess Giovanna Piacenza) of the convent of St. Paul.
What is Correggio's first major work/commission?
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The Lamentation and Matyrdom of four saints.
What is the title of two of his other masterpieces?
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The Leda and the Swan/Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
What is two names of the work currently displayed in the Staatliche Museum of Berlin/Museen of Berlin
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, his works were often remembered in the diaries of foreign visitors to Italy.
What is the reason why there was a re-evaluation of Correggio's works during the period of Romanticism?