Correggio

Of those who have practised the composite style, and have succeeded in this perilous attempt, perhaps the foremost is Correggio.

The Magdalen is sweet in conception, but seems to have less than the usual merit of Correggio's pictures as to painting.

In the decoration of this Correggio surpassed himself in his mastery of chiaroscuro and the foreshortening of the human figure.

It is impossible to overrate the historical importance of the juxtaposition of this work of Mantegna with that of Correggio.

A Bolognese painter, studied under his cousin, Lodovico, who advised him to study the works of Correggio.