Correggio
ANTONIO ALLEGRI (kō-redgyō) yō), commonly called CORREG- GIO from his birthplace; born in 1494, and appears to have first studied painting under Tonino Bartolotto of Correggio; in 1519 he was established as a painter at Parma. The celebrated cupola at Parma was begun in 1520, and in 1522 he undertook the great works of the dome of the cathedral; in the former representing the ascension of Christ, and in the latter, the assumption of the Virgin, both of which series are now admirably engraved by the Cavalier Toschi. The frescoes of the cathedral, left unfinished by Correggio, were completed by his pupil, Giorgio Gandini. Correggio died at his native place in 1534. His great reputation rests chiefly on the above-mentioned frescoes; but he had executed many excellent oil pictures before he proceeded to Parma in 1519. The "Night," of Correggio, in the Gallery of Dresden, is a picture of the nativity of Christ, in which the light proceeds from the body of the infant Saviour.