Introduction by Henry A. Millon, 1987

The National Gallery of Art exhibition The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (December 1986–January 1987) provided an opportunity to study works that reside in diverse collections or that had been newly discovered or recently attributed to Emilian painters. This publication resulted from a symposium held on January 29–30, 1987, which brought together an international group of speakers and participants to discuss topics from attribution to the foundations of the reform of painting and style in early modern Emilia.