Giancarla Periti is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of In the Courts of Religious Ladies: Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents and coedited several volumes, including Ravenna in the Imagination of Renaissance Art and The Network of Cassinese Arts in Renaissance Italy.
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"Periti thoughtfully reconsiders some of the best-known paintings by Correggio in an effort to reposition the artist-who has long been sidelined as a provincial painter-as a creative and dynamic contributor to cinquecento art making and to the experience of the mage. Beautifully written and expertly researched." -Jodi Cranston, author of Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550 "Few before Giancarla Periti have come to grips with the artist's radical departures from the conventions of Renaissance composition, especially in his altarpieces. Particularly welcome too, is the novel discussion of Correggio's 'medievalism,' his attention to Byzantine models accessible to him from the Cassinese network. A particularly perceptive and original chapter shows the painter's approach to medium and support and his capacity to mobilize facture, colored grounds, and varnishes to enhance the psychological impact of a work." -Stephen J. Campbell, author of Leonardo da Vinci: An Untraceable Life