Correggio

Antonio Allegri took his name from Correggio, the small Emilian town where he was born, and spent most of his career in Parma. He painted with soft, smoky modelling and warm flesh, and was a master of chiaroscuro. His dome frescoes in Parma, above all the Assumption of the Virgin in the cathedral, send swirls of figures upward in steep foreshortening, a device Baroque ceiling painters later adopted. His Jupiter and Io is among the most sensuous pictures of the Renaissance.