Albinea Madonna

The Albinea Madonna or Madonna of Albinea is a lost painting by Correggio.[1] The best surviving copy is a 16th-century one by Antonio Leto, from the church of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia and now in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma.

One of the copies of the work.

History

There is much evidence for the commission on an "anchona" or altarpiece for the church of San Prospero, the parish church of Albinea, in the hills near Reggio Emilia - it is mentioned in a letter dated 12 May 1517 from its parish priest Giovanni Guidotti di Roncopò to Alessandro de' Malaguzzi. He found that much of the work on it was complete by that time and it was definitely completed 14 October 1519, when Correggio received his final payment for it. Another document dated 18 December that year mentions the "anchona de la nostra Dona d'Albinea" (the altarpiece of Our Lady at Albinea).

It was probably removed from its original location and replaced with a copy by Francesco I d'Este. It was given to the new Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I by Alfonso IV d'Este in 1657 and then vanished without trace.

References

http://www.correggioarthome.it/SchedaOpera.jsp?idDocumentoArchivio=2509#

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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