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[David Chessler]

Link to video of Parma cathedral in the original.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/12/AR2008121200929.html


Ascending Anew
In Correggio's Homeland, the Overlooked Old 
Master Is Reborn and Rising to His Deserved Level of Prominence

By Blake Gopnik
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 14, 2008; M01

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 (hence 
his nickname), dead by 1534 and a favorite of art 
lovers for the next 3 1/2 centuries. And now, 
only 100 years or so further on, 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.

Connoisseurs have never quite lost track of the 
artist. Once you've seen them, Correggio's best 
paintings areso obviously gorgeous and 
enthralling that you wonder why they aren't 
everywhere on Christmas cards. Few other pictures 
ever have had their mix of powerful emotions, 
wild eccentricity and convincing realism.

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