Correggio – Jupiter and Io: Where Light and Shadow Become a Caress

Correggio showed the world of painting that even the invisible could be made visible.

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In Vienna hangs a narrow painting in which a cloud embraces a woman—and anyone who looks closely will make out a face in the gray. In this episode, we look behind the work to discover how Correggio, around 1530, solved a problem hardly any painter dared to take on, why a pious prince cut its companion painting to pieces, and why Dresden is now devoting the first major exhibition outside Italy to this nearly forgotten master.

Additional Resources

• The work in high resolution: Jupiter and Io at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

• Dive deeper: Jupiter and Io on Wikipedia

• More about the artist: Antonio da Correggio on Wikipedia

The three companion paintings in the series:

Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna – Ganymede Abducted by the Eagle (Wikipedia)

Galleria Borghese, Rome – Danaë

Gemäldegalerie Berlin – Leda and the Swan

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