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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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writes Venturi, that we have succeeded in findingany mention of the famous picture Morelli now ascribes to Adrien vander Werff. The document above quoted throws considerable doubt onthe famous critics conclusions. It is, indeed, not unreasonable tosuppose that if there was a picture at Modena in 16S2 ascribed toCorreggio, it had probably been there for some time. But supposingit to have been in the city only ten years, the Dutch master was aboy of thirteen in 1672, and this picture, even if a copy, was neverpainted by any boy of thirteen. If, however, we accept the desperate hypothesis that the picturewas bought by the Duke of Modena the same year that Lelmi wishedto copy it, we must still remember that Van der Werff was onlytwenty-three at the time ; and it is hardly credible that a picture by theyoung Dutchman should already have become famous as the workof Correggio. 1 Ad. ^cntl^■i, la A. GalUiia csteine, pp. 290. 29T, 30S, 359 Si, Calherine Reading. (HA»:rioN coiirr lAi.Ati:.)
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No question has ever been raised as to the authenticity of theReading St. Catherine at Hampton Court. The author of the Guideto the Italian Pictnirs of this collection assigns it to CorregL^ioslast years, pronouncing it a work of the most refined sensibility,and very modern in teeling. No trace of archaism indeed appearsin the delicate face or in the technical treatment. We must not conclude without any mention of two old engravingsin a volume in the Palatine Library at Parma, which contains manyreproductions, new and old, of Correggios works. The two inquestion form a pair, and are indicated in the catalogue as of greatvalue. One represents St. Joseph, reclining on the ground, his carpenterstools around him. He raises himself on his left elbow, surprised bythe apparition of two angels.- The subject of the other is .St. Jeromein the desert, gazing at a crucih.x supported by an angel in the forkof a tree-trunk. Two cherubs hover above, examining the saint withnaive curiosity.^ In both

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