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Description: | Head of an Angel was considered a portion of the fresco from the ruined apse of the Church of San Giovanni Evangelista at Parma (Paton 1882), where Correggio (1489-1534) painted the The Vision of Saint John. However, the head does not correspond with any part of a sixteenth-century copy of the apse decoration made prior to its demolition, by Cesare Artusi, or with any other work by Correggio. Although stylistically there are resemblances to the typical features of Correggio's angelic faces, the depiction seems artificial and exaggerated; too much effort is made to copy Correggio's refinement with the opposite result. Various experts have called the fragment a late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century paraphrase, copy or pastiche. The fake label on the back, which indicates as its former owner the Marchese Riccardi, accompanied by a seal with just a capital R, seems to confirm this. | Subjects: | figure (angel); religion | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Correggio (Italian painter, ca. 1489-1534) Æ Attributed to manner of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8819... | Go to resource |
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