Antonio da Correggio

Antonio da Correggio
Antonio Allegri da Correggio
Born	Antonio Allegri August 1489 Correggio, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Died	5 March 1534(1534-03-05) (aged 44) Correggio, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
Nationality	Italian
Known for	Fresco, painting
Notable work	Jupiter and Io Assumption of the Virgin
Movement	High Renaissance Mannerism
Spouse	Girolama Francesca di Braghetis ​ ​ (m. 1519; died 1529)​

Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (/kəˈrɛdʒioʊ/, also UK: /kɒˈ-/, US: /-dʒoʊ/,^[1][2][3] Italian: [korˈreddʒo]) was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High Italian Renaissance, who was responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century. In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigured the Baroque art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. He is considered a master of chiaroscuro.