Adoration of the Christ Child (Correggio)

Adoration of the Christ Child is an oil on canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Correggio, dating from around 1526 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.

Adoration of the Child

Artist	Correggio
Year	c. 1526
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	81 cm × 67 cm (32 in × 26 in)
Location	Uffizi Gallery, Florence

History

The work was donated by Francesco I Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, to Cosimo II de' Medici of Tuscany in 1617. The Medici exhibited it in the Uffizi Tribune, where it remained until 1634. The original commission of the painting is however unknown, although some identify it with that mentioned by late Renaissance art biographer Giorgio Vasari and which had been brought to Reggio Emilia from Genoa by Luca Pallavicino.

The dating of the work is based on stylistic elements: the 1524-1526 dates derives from similarities with the Deposition and the Martyrdom of Four Saints. Copies of the painting were executed by Johan Zoffany and Giovan Battista Stefaneschi.

Sources

Adani, Giuseppe (2007). Correggio pittore universale. Correggio: Silvana Editoriale.

External links

Page at the official website

Media related to Virgin adoring the Child (Correggio) at Wikimedia Commons

Antonio da Correggio
Madonnas	Madonna and Child with Saints Francis and Quirinus (c. 1505) Barrymore Madonna (1508–1510) Madonna and Child with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (1510) Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John the Baptist (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) Adoration of the Magi (1515–1518) The Rest on the Flight to Egypt with Saint Francis (1520) Head of Christ (1521) Noli me tangere (1524) Lamentation (1524) Martyrdom of Four Saints (1524) 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)
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 Man with a Book (1522)
Others	David Before the Ark of the Covenant (c.1515) Saint Anthony Abbot (1518) Allegory of Virtue (1531) Allegory of Vice (1531)
Related	Pomponio Allegri (son)

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