Correggio and Parmigianino. Art in Parma during the Sixteenth Ce

This volume offers readers a vast, fascinating overview of the incredible artistic season that flourished in Parma in the first half of the 16th century, thus allowing the city – which had a fairly secondary role from a geographical and political aspect – to take on a prominent role in the development of the Italian Renaissance, alongside cultural centres such as Florence, Venice and Rome.
The authors of the city’s golden age in art were two local prodigies, Antonio Allegri, known as “Correggio” (1489–1534), and Francesco Mazzola, known as “Parmigianino” (1503–1540). The exhibition presents a selection of masterpieces by Correggio – who travelled to Parma at the height of his career and remained there until his death – ranging from religious subjects with an intense emotional drive to the mythological subjects which greatly influenced later artists.
The exhibition also showcases the exceptional results obtained by Parmigianino – whose career saw him working actively in Rome and Bologna as well as in Parma – in the field of portraiture. This volume also details paintings and drawings by other incredibly talented artists belonging to the School of Parma – Michelangelo Anselmi, Francesco Maria Rondani, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli and Giorgio Gandini del Grano – whose work attests the creation of a local school which was directly linked to the presence of the two masters and differed in stylistic and poetic features from the Tuscan-Roman and Venetian schools.
The volume includes detailed bibliographical notes.
Essays by: David P.M. Ekserdjian, Matteo Lafranconi, Mary Vaccaro, Elisabetta Fadda, Maddalena Spagnolo.