Child's Head (Recto) Nude Male Figure (Verso)

Child's Head (Recto) Nude Male Figure (Verso)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year
1700
Dimensions
31.6 × 23.4 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)

Artist

Antonio Allegri Da Correggio
Antonio Allegri Da Correggio

Antonio Allegri da Correggio, usually known as just Correggio, 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.

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