Annunciation (Correggio)

Fresco by Antonio da Correggio

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Annunciation

Artist| Correggio
Year| c. 1525
Medium| fresco
Dimensions| 157 cm × 315 cm (62 in × 124 in)
Location| Galleria nazionale, Parma
Preparatory drawing in the Metropolitan Museum

The Annunciation is a 157 by 315 cm fresco fragment by Correggio, dating to around 1524-1525 and now in the Galleria nazionale di Parma.

## History

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It was originally painted on the wall of the church of San Francesco in Parma. Its style allows it to be dated to the 1520s, shortly after Correggio finished the frescoes on the dome of the church of San Giovanni Evangelista and just before he began those on the dome of Parma Cathedral. The figure of Gabriel on a cloud with his robe blown in the wind is reminiscent of Correggio's work on these other two frescoes[1]

On San Francesco's demolition in 1546 was moved to another location, where it was seen by Vasari:

> Also in the same city (Parma), in the church of the Frati de' Zocoli di S. Francesco, can be seen an Annunciation in fresco, which is so fine that when they demolished its original home, the monks placed iron bars behind that section of wall, cut it away little by little and moved the section of wall to another safer position in the same convent.

It was later moved a second time, to the Annunziata church in Capo di Ponto.

## References

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1. ^ (in Italian) M. Spagnolo, Annunciation - catalogue entry in Correggio Art Home

## Bibliography

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* (in Italian) Lucia Fornari Schianchi (ed.), Correggio, Skira, Milano, 2008. ISBN 9788857200057 (exhibition catalogue for the 2008-2009 exhibition in Parma; with bibliography)
* David Ekserdjan, Correggio, Amilcare Pizzi, Milano, 1997.

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Madonnas|

* Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Quirinus (c. 1505)
* Barrymore Madonna (1508–1510)
* Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Pavia, c. 1510; attributed)
* Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (1510)
* Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (Mantua, 1511)
* Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (1513–1514)
* Madonna and Child with St Francis (1514–1515)
* The Holy Family with Saint Jerome (c. 1515)
* Madonna and Child with Two Musician Angels (1515–16)
* La Zingarella (1516–17)
* Campori Madonna (1517–18)
* Bolognini Madonna (1514–1519)
* Albinea Madonna (1517–1519)
* Madonna and Child with the Infant John the Baptist (Madrid, Orléans) (1518)
* Casalmaggiore Madonna (c. 1522)
* Madonna of the Stairs (c. 1522–23)
* San Sebastiano Madonna (1524)
* Nursing Madonna with an Angel (c. 1524)
* Madonna of the Basket (1525)
* Adoration of the Christ Child (1526)
* Madonna della Scodella (1528)
* Madonna of St. Jerome (1528)
* Madonna and Child with St. George (1530)

Other religious paintings|

* Judith and Her Maidservant (1510)
* Four Saints (1514)
* David Before the Ark of the Covenant (c. 1515)
* Adoration of the Magi (1515–1518)
* Rest on the Flight into Egypt with Saint Francis (1520)
* Head of Christ (1521)
* Agony in the Garden (1524)
* Noli me tangere (1524)
* Lamentation (1524)
* Martyrdom of Four Saints (1524)
* Ecce Homo (c. 1526)
* Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine :
* Washington c. 1510)
* (Detroit c. 1512)
* (Naples c. 1520)
* (Paris c. 1527
* Saint Joseph and a Devotee (1529)
* Nativity (1529–1530)
* Saint Catherine Reading (c. 1530)
* Magdalen in the Desert (Mary Magdalene Reading)

Religious frescoes|

* Mantegna funerary chapel (1507)
* Camera di San Paolo (1520)
* Vision of St. John on Patmos (1520–1522)
* Annunciation (1525)
* Assumption of the Virgin (1526–1530)

Mythological paintings|

* Venus with Mercury and Cupid (1525)
* Venus and Cupid with a Satyr (1528)
* Jupiter and Io (1530)
* Leda and the Swan (1530–1531)
* Danaë (1531)
* Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (1531–1532)

Portraits|

* Portrait of a Lady (c. 1520)
* Portrait of a Man with a Book (1522)

Others|

* Saint Anthony Abbot (1518)
* Saint John Fleeing Christ's Arrest (c. 1522) (anonymous copy)
* Allegory of Virtue (1531)
* Allegory of Vice (1531)

Related|

* Pomponio Allegri (son)

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