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Title: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934 Simmons, Florence
Subjects: Correggio, 1489?-1534
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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left foot, which rests on the ground, is contracted. Herright hand seems to close tremblingly, her left arm is laid round thecloud, as if to draw it to her, and through the mist, the hand of thegod is seen appearing from beneath her arm. The foliage of a fewlittle trees pierces the delicate mass of vapour at intervals. Behind lo,close to the mound on which she is seated, is a great amphora, frombeneath which a stream of clear water flows over the stones. This isperhaps the river Inachus, to which the adventurous nymph owed herbeing. To the right, a hind approaches to slake her thirst at thebrook. The manner in which the artist has solved the problem ofshowing nearly the whole of los figure, and yet suggesting theenvelopment of her form by the cloud, is very remarkable. Herfigure, which is little short of life-size, fills nearly all the canvas. Thepresence of the god is indicated only by the dimly seen face and hand.Yet in this mysterious apparition, and in the slow exhalations of the
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THE -DAXAE IN TIIK r.ORC.HKSK CAl.I.F.RV 317 clouds ihat darken the sky, all the vague and solemn poetry of theold myth is realised.^ The Daiiiic, now in the Villa Iorghese, is the only one of Cor-reggios mythological pictures remaining in Italy. The fair daughterof Acrisius, a delicately virginal figure, turns her face to Cupid, who,seated on her couch, draws back her white drapery, that the goldenrain bv which Jove makes her the mother of Perseus may descendupon her. Below, to the right, two beautiful Amorini are intent onsharpening their arrows, a quiver full of which lies near them. Aruined building and the faint outline of distant hills are seen througha high window. Danae betrays none of the agitation of lo. There is a spiritualityin her emotion, and a classic dignity in the ingenuous composure ofher form which gives her a charm impossible to describe in words.The execution adds not a little to the fascination of this picture. Theimpasto is marvellous, and the fusion of the tint

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