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Title: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934
Subjects: Correggio, 1489?-1534
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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dividual method.1Such opinions could only have been advanced at a time when no veryaccurate idea of Correggios successive phases had been formed. Itis impossible to accept this picture as a work of the master. In spiteof certain fine qualities of composition, and the luminous effect of thecolour, it is very faulty in drawing, and has little grace, and littletransparence in the shadows. Neither can we discover in it anyof the distinctive characteristics of Anselmi. The brilliant eyes, thecareful drawing of the extremities, which he generally represents inanimated motion, as challenging difficulties he knows himself able toovercome, above all, the clear and delicate colour, and the complicatedfolds of drapery, are alike conspicuous by their absence. The author of the picture is, as a fact, unknown. Was he one ofthe painters mentioned in documents of the period ? Or has the workoutlived the name of its creator ? The same questions may be asked 1 Bottari, Raccolia di lettere, vii. p. 420.
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THE PROCESSION TO CALVARY. In the Parma Gallery. SUPPOSED PUPILS AT CORREGGIO 38r of another picture in the gallery, the supposed portrait of NicoloMaria Quirico Sanvitale, ascribed by Stanislao Campana and PaoloToschi to Correggio, who, as we have seen, painted no portraits.Although it has something of the masters tone of colour, the tamenessof the conception, and the treatment of the drapery are decisive asagainst its attri-bution to Allegri. To the listof scholars whoadmittedly work-ed under Cor-reggios influ-ence in Parma,certain biogra-phers haveadded a groupof artists whoare supposed tohave been hispupils in hisnative city. The short so-journs he madeat Correggio be-tween his longabsences at Par-ma and else-where ; the ex-treme improb-ability of hishaving burdened himself with pupils during the last three years of his life, whenhe was, most probably, already in feeble health, and busily engagedon the Duke of Mantuas numerous commissions, and the agesof the presumptive scholars,

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