Pomponio Allegri

Pomponio Allegri (1521 – 1593fl. 1593) was an Italian painter. He was the son of Correggio, and studied the first rudiments of art under his father before Correggio's death when he was thirteen years of age. He is said to have continued his studies after Correggio's death, under Francesco Maria Rondani, the ablest disciple of his father. Pomponio inherited a considerable fortune from his father and grandfather, and appears for some time to have held a good position in Correggio. He afterwards, however, sold most of his landed property, and his affairs became involved. He received many important commissions. One of his altar-pieces, showing the influence of his father, is in the Academy at Parma. It represents Moses showing the Israelites the Tables of the Law. Other works are in various churches. He sometimes signed himself Pomponio Laeti, latinizing the name of Allegri, as his father also did occasionally. He was still living in 1593. After his time the family of Allegri appears to have fallen into poverty, and to have become extinct.

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This article incorporates text from the article "ALLEGRI, Pomponeo" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.