Blake Gopnik
The Washington Post
PARMA, ITALY
Until about a hundred years ago, there were five godfathers of Western art: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian -- and Correggio.
Correggio, possibly the greatest artist we've almost forgotten.
Correggio: Born Antonio Allegri in about 1489, in the northern Italian hamlet of Correggio (whence his nickname), dead by 1534 and a favourite of art lovers for the next three and a half centuries. And now, virtually unknown.
Correggio's first full-scale retrospective (such has been his decline) opened this fall in venues across Parma, the wealthy little city where he did his most important work and where he died, in his artistic prime, of a sudden fever. The exhibition's aim is to bring its local hero back to life. That's not far-fetched: A show in Milan did it for Caravaggio, back in 1951 when he was far more thoroughly forgotten than Correggio has ever been.
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http://news.guelphmercury.com/arts/article/415654
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