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Correggio
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Cor·reg·gio  (k-rj, k-rdj), Antonio Allegri da 1494-1534.
Italian High Renaissance painter known for his use of chiaroscuro. Among his works are devotional pictures, including Holy Night, and frescoes, such as those in the convent of San Paolo in Parma (1518).
Correggio (Italian) [korˈreddʒo]
n
(Biographies / Correggio, Antonio Allegri da (1494-1534) M, Italian, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Antonio Allegri da (anˈtɔːnjo alˈleːgri da). 1494-1534, Italian painter, noted for his striking use of perspective and foreshortening
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Noun1.Correggio - Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534)Correggio - Italian painter noted for his use of chiaroscuro and perspective (1494-1534)
Antonio Allegri da Correggio
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Maddalena Spagnolo's book considers the critical and figurative fortune of a great Italian Renaissance artist, Antonio Allegri, better known as Correggio.
Correggio: Geografia e storia della fortuna (1528-1657) by Periti, Giancarla / Renaissance Quarterly
17 Antonio Allegri was the actual name of which great painter usually known by the name of his birthplace?
50 for fun Phil Brown's trivia quiz by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
In the sixteenth century Giorgio Vasari hailed Antonio Allegri da Correggio as the first Lombard artist to work in the modern style, adding that his art would have reached absolute perfection if only he had left Lombardy for Rome.
Correggio by Vaccaro, Mary / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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