School of Antonio da Correggio

School of Correggio is the label for paintings made in the manner of Antonio Allegri, called Correggio after his home town, by artists who learned from him or from his pictures, when no single hand can be identified. It points first to Parma, the city where he worked in the 1520s and where his soft modelling and tender Madonnas shaped local painting for decades. His small devotional pictures were also copied and imitated far from Parma well into the 17th century.

A few of those painters have names. Francesco Maria Rondani worked beside him as a collaborator, and Michelangelo Anselmi and Giorgio Gandini del Grano took up his manner in their own altarpieces. Bernardino Gatti, called il Sojaro, was long described as Correggio's pupil, though he was not. From 1560 Gatti painted the dome of Santa Maria della Steccata, a Parma church, with an Assumption that borrows openly from Correggio's painted domes in the same city.