Légende
La Notte, from the picture by Correggio, in the Dresden Gallery, 1873. '"La Notte," or "The Night," which we engrave as a fitting art-illustration for this Christmas-tide, this Festival of the Nativity, is the most celebrated of several chefs-d'oeuvre by Correggio...the greatest master of chiaroscuro. This rare charm in art is here exemplified by the exquisite manner in which the light emanating from the Divine Infant is conducted. The supernatural light beams full on the ecstatic face of the Virgin, yet she is undazzled by it; while another female draws back...as though unable to endure the radiance; it brightly illumines the angels above, and it touches more softly the rude faces and forms of the shepherds...Here the simplicity of the drawing of the Virgin and Child is shown in contrast with the foreshortening of the group of angels...The emitting the light from the Child through a supernatural illusion is eminently successful: it looks neither forced nor improbable...the matchless beauty of the Virgin and Child, the group of angels overhead, the daybreak in the sky, and the whole arrangement of light and shadow, give it the right to be considered, in conception at least, the greatest of his works'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A14_024
Model release
NA
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NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
55,8Mo (6,5Mo) / 31,7cm x 44,1cm / 3741 x 5214 (300dpi)