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Antonio da Correggio

1489 - 1534

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Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – 5 March 1534), usually known as just Correggio (, also UK: , US: , Italian: [korˈreddʒo]), was an Italian Renaissance painter who was the foremost painter of the Parma school of the High 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio da Correggio is the 104th most popular painter (down from 98th in 2019), the 403rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 333rd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Italian Painter.

Antonio da Correggio is most famous for his paintings, one of which is "The Lamentation over the Dead Christ."

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Among painters, Antonio da Correggio ranks 104 out of 2,023. Before him are Sofonisba Anguissola, Claude Lorrain, Andrei Rublev, Filippo Lippi, Guido Reni, and Hans Memling. After him are Matthias Grünewald, Lisa del Giocondo, Ivan Aivazovsky, Jacob van Ruisdael, Apelles, and William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1489, Antonio da Correggio ranks 1. After him are Thomas Müntzer, Margaret Tudor, Charles, Duke of Vendôme, Thomas Cranmer, Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, William Farel, Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, Charles IV, Duke of Alençon, Gerónimo de Aguilar, and Fernando d'Ávalos. Among people deceased in 1534, Antonio da Correggio ranks 3. Before him are Pope Clement VII, and Hafsa Sultan. After him are Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Thomas Cajetan, Marcantonio Raimondi, Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Stephen VIII Báthory, Otto Brunfels, Barbara Jagiellon, and Antonio da Sangallo the Elder.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio da Correggio ranks 403 out of 5,161. Before him are Pope Stephen IV (770), Gaius Octavius (-100), Pope Sergius I (650), Filippo Lippi (1406), Guido Reni (1575), and Nero Claudius Drusus (-38). After him are Mario Draghi (1947), Pope Theodore II (840), Yves Montand (1921), Pope Celestine II (1100), Pope Nicholas IV (1227), and Enrico Dandolo (1107).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Antonio da Correggio ranks 32. Before him are Cimabue (1240), Paolo Uccello (1475), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), Filippo Lippi (1406), and Guido Reni (1575). After him are Lisa del Giocondo (1479), Pontormo (1494), Simone Martini (1284), Andrea del Sarto (1486), Parmigianino (1503), and Annibale Carracci (1560).

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