Correggio and Parmigianino: Art in Parma During the Sixteenth Century

David Ekserdjian

For a few decades in the first half of the 16th century, the tremendous quality of the paintings and drawings produced in Parma (and by artists from the city working elsewhere) made the city more than a match for its rivals. The two reasons for this brief golden age were Correggio (1489-1534) and Parmig...