The Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Antonio Allegio was born in Correggio, a sm every(prenominal) Lombard town near ReggioEmilo. His birth date is unknown (Around 1489). His father was a merchant. Otherwise,Little is known of Correggios life or training. In the years 1503-1505 he apprenticed toFrancesco Bianchi Ferrara of Modena. He was influenced by the classicism of authorslike Lorenzo Costa and Francesco Francia which can be found in his early depictions.In 1516 he was in Parma, where he became a friend of Michelangelo Anselmi,one of the main Mannerist painters of the period. He remained in that city until 1530.In 1519 he matrimonial Girolama Francesco di Braghetis, also of Correggio and died in 1529.In this period Correggio paints his beautiful painting Virgin and child with the boylike reverence John the Baptist. It is a painting on oil on panel Italian circa. 1494-1534.The subject matter of the painting is John the Baptist as a child and his firstmeeting of the Madonna and the Christ child. Influenced by da Vi nci da Vinci isromantic with overwhelming radiance and cool pearly colors. The expressive content ofthe painting is of joy, wonder and is playful. It seems to be a happy, leisurely time for allthree commonwealth. The young exaltation John Baptists mood is of reverence as he bows down andlooks up at the Christ child. The lines in the painting is of a symmetrical motifarrangement with the Madonna leaning a little toward the young saint almost welcomingher into her arms.The matter is religious for the young saint is meeting the Christ child as well aswelcomed into the arms of the Madonna. The young Saint John the Baptists looks as ifhe is rest as he looks up from below to look at the Christ child. The figures arpeasants sitting on a bench in a tend underneath a vine. The Madonna is dressed in abeautiful pale red dress and a cloak that is a rich unconsolable on top and green underneath. Thecloak draped over her head is folded over and falling off revealing the green underneathon the proficient side of the Madonna and the blue on her left shoulder.The color is rich in texture the brush stroke smooth and one stroke. The colorsare pale, delicate, and deep bringing out the rich color in the painting. The light and coolpearly radiant color seems to be coming from within the people as well as behind theMadonna. The specific effect is of symmetry in relation to each other. The work isorganized to show the Madonna in the center lovingly balancing the Christ child on herleft leg as she reaches out her left arm to welcome the young Saint John the Baptist. TheChrist child is sitting on the Madonnas left leg he is raised above the head of the youngsaint and the young saint kneel and look up. The central focus is of the Madonna inthe center and her smile as well as the Christ child balancing on the Madonnas leg.Antonia Correggio reflected the historical context of the renaissance by usingthe periods work of religious themes found in the Madonna, the Christ Child and a youngJohn the Baptist. The painting is a stylized and idealized. His religious symbolism islargely drawn from the work of Jacobus de Voragine (1260) He created dynamiccomposition and perspective in his dramatic three-dimensional focused paintings. Themythological perspective depicts movement, drama and diagonal compositionarrangement. You can find this movement and drama in the painting The pure andchild with the young saint John the Baptist in the Madonnas movement of her arm asshe welcomes the young Saint to join her and her son. Also, in the composition of thethree. The Madonna is in the center of the painting thereby catching the eye of the personlooking at the painting.Antonio Correggio was an enigmatic and eclectic painter. His art was a office toreproduce life in its most persuasive domestic side. Later, he initiated a style ofsentimental elegance and conscious allure with soft gestures and enamour charm byusing imaginary spaces as a replacement for reality. He used these elements of Manneristand Baroque stylistic approaches found at the time of the renaissance. Antonio Correggiois considered to this twenty-four hour period to be one of the boldest and most inventive artist of the HighRenaissance. He was revolutionary and is still influential for subsequent artists.Works Citedhttp//WWW.artic.edu/aic/collections/highlight_search?acc=1965.688&page=&1&ArtistID=310