Person
Antonio da Correggio
foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance,
Antonio Allegri da Correggio (August 1489 – March 5, 1534), usually known as Correggio, is the foremost painter of the Parma school of the Italian Renaissance, who is responsible for some of the most vigorous and sensuous works of the sixteenth century.
In his use of dynamic composition, illusionistic perspective and dramatic foreshortening, Correggio prefigures the Rococo art of the eighteenth century.