Biography
The Italian artist Antonio and Korredjo worked in the Renaissance Epoch, its paintings are kept in the foundations of famous museums and galleries. The master is considered the predecessor of Rococo and Baroque styles, which acted on the aesthetic image of people.Childhood and youth
On the early biography of the painter, baptized as Antonio Allegri, there is no reliable information in ancient Italian archives. It is known that distant ancestors lived in the village of Correggio, in the same time at the end of the 15th century, the master was born.
According to researchers, people who gave the life to an outstanding artist, respected in the vicinity of Reggio Emilia and nearby cities. Father, engaged in shop in the shop, located in the local market, thanks to dating and ties was known in cultural circles.
About Mother Antonio to European society is not known at all, presumably, she led the farm and raised children. In the house owned by the family, traditions and customs were respected, on weekends there was a society of intelligent guests.
Uncle of the future representative of the high rebirth period was considered the author of a series of frescoes for temples and graphic palaces. A man who lost the heirs, participated in the life of the nephew and became the first teacher of the boy in the late 1490s.
A relative, most likely, in childhood, noticed the natural abilities of the ward, who was able to see the composition of the compositions not yet written. The child's interest in the works of eminent masters of classicism did not take care of the dressed glance of men who took care of the future.
The father decided to send the Son to the municipality of Modena, in the workshop of Francesco Bianchi Ferrara Antonio became a student. However, because of the death of the mentor, specializing in altar painting, he did not qualify and returned to the parental house.
It was believed that after that, yes, Korredjo went to Mantua, there, visiting the gallery, he met extraordinary people. Paints of the era of Classicism Francesco France and Lorenzo Costa influenced the formation of a way to implement ideas.
In the middle of 1506, the native of the Italian province has begun to create independent thematic religious paintings. The canvas "Baby Worship Saint Elizabeth and John" impressed authoritative men.
Personal life
About the personal life of Antonio and Korredago almost nothing is known, but in the official biography, there were mention of his wife. Dzhirolam Francesci di Braghetis became Mother Pomponio Allegri, a painter portrayed in the Parm Cathedral of Moses standing on Mount.A student Francesco Bianca Ferrara was considered a wealthy landowner, richness got him from relatives, shopkeepers and merchants. The heir, in his youth, did not want to live and work in Korredjo, sold the parental estate in the middle of the 1550s.
Painting
After creating works for the Church of Sant Andrea in Mantua, the native of Korredjo became known in Italian artistic circles. According to the contract, he took up the work on the altar way Madonna, who appeared in the Monastery of St. Francis in the 1510th year.
The picture was liked by representatives of the wealthy cultural community, and Antonio received an order from secured people. In Parma, he decorated with places of good-apartments with paintings, based on the plots of the frescoes of ancient European churches.
During this period, the Master communicated with Michelangelo Anselmi and other representatives of the flow of manherism. Distinctive features of the works were winding lines, sophisticated exterior harmony and unacted eroticism.
In the 1520s, the style was changed - the composition with spatial effects visually rushed up. The painter who combined the secular genres with the traditional theme of the Church, in the territory of Italy accompanied a loud success.
In the Dresden Gallery, the canvas, permeated by the spirit of the People's Holiday, are stored, art historians noted a blatant light flavor. Graceful poses in paintings with asymmetric filling attracted attention to the characters.
Antonio was rightfully considered a master of flowering effects, the talent manifested itself in a large-scale picture of "worship of shepherds." The events of the fabulous holy night are filled with sublime emotions, symbolized the painting of Baroque began the early 1600s.
For later works of the painter, a combination of sensory erotic sentiments with thoughts about deities was characterized. The embodiment of the ancient Roman mythological plots was in demand and popular in aristocratic circles.
Federico II Gongaz ordered the "Jupiter and IO" fabric to decorate the country villa, erected in a short time. Subsequently, artworks about the adventures of the thumbnail in the work of yes, Korredjo made up a separate original block.
Leda, Gamornad and Dana, along with biblical characters, were the heroes of the collisions presented on unique canvas. Together with "Venus, Satire and Cydon", these outstanding works before entering the museum were kept in rich houses.
Madonna, Maria Magdalina and other female images admired Bernardino Gatti and Giorgio Gandini Del Grano. Pictures that are in Louvre and private European collections sometimes flashed in the scenes of art and documentary films.
Death
Having spent about 10 years in Parma, Antonio unexpectedly returned to his homeland, where in March 1534 he was overtook death from unknown reasons. At the funeral in the vicinity of Corredjo, where Madonna Di San Francesco was created, close relatives and a number of non-indulgered men were present.Now the exact place of the burial of the Italian painter is unknown, but his name is not forgotten in enlightened cultural circles. Antonio's masterpieces affected the work of talented Italians who laid the traditions of Baroque in the 1500s.
Paintings
- 1510 - "Worship of the Baby of Saint Elizabeth and John"
- 1510-1515 - "Holy Out of Catherine"
- 1514 - "Madonna di San Francesco"
- 1515 - "Madonna with Saint Francis"
- 1518 - "Portrait of the Lady"
- 1528-1530 - "Worship of Shephers"
- 1530 - "Jupiter and IO"
- 1530-1532 - "Madonna with Saint George"
- 1531 - "Dana"
- 1532 - "Leda and Swan"