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Borghese Gallery, Rome, May - September 2008. Correggio exhibition
It might be stretching things a little to call 'Il Correggio' a 'forgotten genius'. His works hang in galleries all over Europe. But consider this - in Renaissance Europe, there were three artists considered to be the true greats of the movement. The so-called Renaissance Triad comprised Michelangelo, Raphael and Il Correggio. Ask the average punter making his dutiful trip to the art gallery if he has heard of the first two and he will nod sagely. But who was that last one again?
Antonio Allegri da Correggio was born in the town of Correggio, near Reggio-Emilia in the north Italian region of Emilia-Romagna, in 1489. By the time he died in 1534, he had become the major painter in the Italian Renaissance's Parma School. Anticipating the Rococo art of the 18th century, Il Correggio uses dramatic foreshortening, illusionistic perspective and a dynamic style of composition. 'Can a pencil depict air?' queried one Correggio expert, wondering at the master's ability to conjure the subtlety of movement with his brush.
An undisputed genius, and yet forgotten by the casual gallery goer - it's an injustice that Rome's Borghese Gallery aims to rectify with its Correggio and the Antique exhibition, which runs until 14 September 2008. Amazingly, this is the first monograph exhibition devoted to Correggio and is the third of the 'Ten Great Exhibitions' mounted by Claudio Strinati, Special Superintendent of Rome Museums, alongside the Director of the Galleria Borghese, Anna Coliva.
The show includes 60 masterworks, a mix of paintings, drawings and other works. Why 'the Antique'? Because the works on show reflect the obsession of Correggio (as with his fellow Renaissance masters) with Classical Italy as the starting point of their subject matter, and with Rome as the starting point for Renaissance art. This is a superb collection, drawn from galleries all around Europe. We have Jupiter and Io and The Abduction of Ganymede (from the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna), Danäe (from the Galleria Borghese), The Education of Cupid (from the National Gallery in London) hung alongside Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (from the Louvre).
We have the Loves of Jupiter and, in addition to the mythological scenes, there are some 20 paintings on religious themes, among them the Madonna del latte (from the Szepmuveszeti Muzeum), Noli me tangere (from the Prado), Four Saints (from the Metropolitan Museum of New York), The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine (from the Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte), Adoration of the Magi (from the Pinacoteca di Brera).
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