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Identifier: italiancities01blas (find matches)
Title: Italian cities
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918
Subjects: Art -- Italy Cities and towns -- Italy Italy -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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onna della Vittoria andhas trained it all over the vaulting. Each of thesixteen ribbed spaces terminates below with a lunetteand is pierced in the centre with an oval; throughthese ovals look the cupids in groups of twos; inthe lunettes are the nymphs and other mythologicalpersonages, in very pleasing monochrome chiaro-scuro. The cupids are more thickset and less lovelythan are the children of the Duomo and San Gio-vanni, but they are full of life. These frescoes, say the guidebooks, are betterpreserved than are Correggios others ; so in a waythey are, but though they have kept their surface,they have darkened, been smoked, perhaps, and thecolor has lost its freshness far more than upon thecrumbling stucco of the Duomos cupola. We have said that in Correggios frescoes he rulesby power, in his easel pictures by compelling charm.To say how compelling, one has only to recounttheir migrations and vicissitudes. Simor Kicci 2S8 ROME BORGHESE GALLERY CORREGGIO PUTTl (FRAGMENT FROM THE DANAE)
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PARMA gives chapters to their odyssey, and even a brief-est epitome of some of their adventures is in- teresting. By the year 1580 or so Italians had forgotten allabout quattrocento masters ; the works of Raphael,Michelangelo, Titian, on the contrary, were treas-ured, and no pictures were more loved at home orcoveted abroad than Correggios. They were covertlystolen, openly seized, and captured on the battlefieldin the enemys baggage; they were the cause ofriots, of deputations ; they endangered the safety ofcities ; they were carried to Paris by republicansand to Stockholm by sovereigns; worst of all, weremercilessly cleaned, restored, and overpainted. Let us take the six great altar-pieces, — the Nativ-ity, the St. Sebastian, the St. George, the St. Francis,the ScodeUa, and the San Girolamo. The four firstwent to Dresden as a result of the famous purchasemade by the Elector of Saxony from the Duke ofModena in 1746. The St. Francis was painted in 1515 for a monas-tery in the town of

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