The Casalmaggiore Madonna is a lost oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Correggio, measuring 28 by 24 cm and painted around 1522.
History
A copy in Frankfurt (in poor condition and probably transferred from canvas to panel) and a preparatory sketch are the only evidence of the work. The sketch is on the back of a sheet of designs for a fresco at the San Giovanni Evangelista church in Parma, dating the Casalmaggiore Madonna commission to November 1522.
The Frankfurt work has divided critics – some see it as a copy of a lost original and others as an autograph work by Correggio in poor condition which may have entered the Galleria Estense when Francesco I occupied Casalmaggiore in1646.
Bibliography
Giuseppe Adani, Correggio pittore universale, Silvana Editoriale, Correggio 2007. ISBN9788836609772