Correggio - Finestre sull'Arte

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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In the pleasure dome

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, and after the article written by Francis Haskell, the one written by Alberto Arbasino for the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's...
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Correggio and its importance for the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

We publish below, as anticipated inBruno Zanardi's article last May 18, the article written by Francis Haskell in the book that Guanda published in 1990 on the occasion of the restoration of Correggio's frescoes in the dome of San Giovanni in Parma. ...
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More on Correggio's frescoes in the dome of the abbey church of San Giovanni in Parma

As already written in the December 31, 2023issue of "Finestre sull'Arte," in the 1980s Parma was becoming a small restoration capital in Italy. The then Vicar General of the Diocese, Monsignor Franco Grisenti, a priest with great organizational skill...
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The Madonna of Albinea, Correggio's masterpiece in the heart of the Italian Renaissance

The Madonna of Albinea, painted by Correggio in 1519, stands as a singular compositional and executive pivot at a temporal juncture of the height of the Italian Renaissance; that artistic phenomenon that had already reached the "great manner" and tha...
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An awakening on Correggio: the Madonna of Casalmaggiore

This brief essay takes the form of a sequence of notes, first on the Madonna of Casalmaggiore, a painting executed by Correggio probably around the year 1522, oil on canvas measuring cm. 90.5 x 72.2 preserved at the Städelinstitut in Frankfurt, ...
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