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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (Correggio, Italy August 1489 – March 5, 1534) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance.
It is not alway possible to identify a stylistic link between his paintings. Correggio is an enigmatically eclectic provincial painter; he appears to have emerged out of no major apprenticeship, and had little immediate influence in apprenticed successors, but his works are now considered to have been revolutionary and influential to subsequent artists. A century after Correggio's death, his work was well kno ...
In addition to his religious art, he produced a set of 4 mythological masterpiece paintings centered around the Loves of Jupiter as itemized in Ovid's Metamorphosis. The set was commisioned by Federico Gonzaga II of Mantua and intended as a gift to the visiting Holy Roman Emperor Charles I; thus, within a few years of completion(c 1532), these paintings had left Italy, and thus were likely not influential to subsequent painting in Italy.
They are stunning and elegantly sensous. "Leda and the Swan", now in the Staatliche Museen ...
