Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 1999
Carolyn Smyth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. 141 illus. + 4 plates + 158 pp. n.p. ISBN: 0-691-03747-7.
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 ...
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