Corregio

kor-red'jo (1494-1534), an Italian painter. He is noted for graceful figures and his handling of perspective. His pictures are highly prized in the galleries of Europe. His subjects are similar to those of Michael Angelo and Raphael, with whom he is, in a way, associated and ranked; but he could be spared with far less disaster to art. Holy Night, his most celebrated painting, hangs in the Dresden Gallery. Artists consider it a masterpiece of light and shade. There are six of Corregio's paintings in this gallery. They cost Augustus $90,000. Others are to be found at London, Paris, Naples, Florence, and Rome; but most of Corregio's work was done by way of interior decoration for the churches of Parma. In the main dome of the Parma Cathedral, he painted the Assumption of the Virgin. Mary, the mother, is borne aloft by a host of rejoicing angels, while Christ, the Son, hastens to meet her. Corregio was the son of a Modena merchant. He lived chiefly in Mantua and Parma. He died without having visited Rome, Florence, or any of the renowned art centers. See Raphael