Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine, by Antonio da Correggio, circa 1525–27.
Long undervalued among 16th-century painters, Antonio da Correggio is now being celebrated with his first major exhibition outside of Italy By Nicholas Fox Weber In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, a book that established the canon for Italian artists, the 16th-century painter Giorgio Vasari, inventor of the term “Renaissance,” accorde…