Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 1999
David Ekserdjian. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. x + 344 pp. $65 ISBN: 0-300-07299-6.
In the sixteenth century Giorgio Vasari hailed Antonio Allegri da Correggio as the first Lombard artist to work in the modern style, adding that his art would have reached absolute perfection if only he had left Lombardy for Rome. Whether or not Correggio actually traveled to Rome, he appears to have worked exclusively in North Italian towns, especially Parma, rather than the major artistic centers, A "provincial" artist by definition, Correggio's creative legacy has hardly proven margi...
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