Artist: Antonio Allegri Da Correggio
Date: 1515
Size: 222 x 162 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Four saints, each appearing to be lost in thought, are shown before a dark forest grove and illuminated by a soft light. Commissioned for a church in the painter’s hometown of Correggio, the four saints were chosen by the patron, Melchiore Fassi. Correggio was one of the most original painters of the Renaissance, and in this early picture he explored ideas put into circulation by Leonardo da Vinci, seeking a haunting ambiguity of expression and a soft, enveloping light.
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