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Title: Famous painters and paintings
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Shedd, Julia Ann Clark, 1834-1897
Subjects: Painters Painting
Publisher: Boston, J. R. Osgood and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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ng element of beauty is the peculiar playof light and shade which spreads a harmonious reposeover his pictures. Of the early works of this master may be mentionedthe large altar-piece, now in the Dresden Gallery, whichwas painted for the Franciscan convent at Carpi.There is more repose and simplicity in this work thanin his later ones. The heads show reminiscences of DaVinci and his school. A Riposo and a Madonna are in the tribune of theUffizi at Florence ; they are of little importance exceptas examples of his further development. About the year 1518 Correggio was invited to Parmato paint a saloon in the convent of S. Paolo for theAbbess. The subjects from ancient mythology whichhe executed here are amoig his most beautiful works. In the year 1520, in the cupola of the church of S.Giovanni at Parma, he executed the Ascension in fres-co, and over the high altar a Coronation of the Virgin,now only known through copies and engravings. His peculiar style was carried to perfection in the
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THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR. LENOXTILD- N FOUNDATIONS 1494.) CORREGIO. 107 large frescos in the cupola of the Duomo at Parma,executed between the years 1526 and 1530. In thecentre of the dome he represented the Assumption, — theMadonna l)orne up to heaven by an innumerable throngof rejoicing angels, while the Saviour descends to meether. Below are the Apostles and Evangelists. Theforeshortening in this painting appears to have beencarried to such an extent that the limbs seen frombelow seem more conspicuous than the bodies, andCorreggio was reproached in his lifetime with liavingpainted tin guazzcllo dl rane (a hash of frogs).Caracci says of this work: I still remain stupefiedwith sight of so grand a w^ork, — everything so well-conceived, so well seen from below, — with so muchseverity, yet with so much judgment and so muchgrace ; with a coloring which is of very flesh. A fewyears ago some of the cartoons of this work were acci-dentally discovered in a garret in Parma, and

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