Correggio - Gallery of the Arts S. Author:Lucia Fornari Schianchi, Edoardo Villata Antonio Allegri (1489-1534), named Correggio after his birthplace, worked in the triangle spanning Emilia and Lombardy, throughout the early sixteenth century where new rules of painting were being developed and expressed, based on light and color, the voluptuousness and softness of bodies and a new conception of space and nature. Correggio work... more »ed mainly in Parma, where he was able to fully express his innovative passion and talent for painting. In the Camera di San Paolo, for a Benedictine abbess, he designed a pergola featuring the entire mythological Olympus in lunettes as lovely as carved marble, offering a complex iconology of emblems and symbols; while on the vaults of Parmas churches he expressed the notion of a fleecy paradise where the representatives of a welcoming, religiosity interact within a sweeping scenography. But he also created altarpieces, boldly erotic profane subjects and rapid sketches, conserved today in leading museums all over the world. Since Vasari there has not been a single historian or critic who has not recognized his importance.« less