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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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If so, wecan only pity those who adopted an absurd expedient without ob-taining the desired result! The picture crossed the seas, the varnish,if it ever existed, was removed, and its original beauties are nowdisplayed to alien eyes. These early works, the dense and vigorous tones ot which recallCosta in his second period, and Francia, are followed by a little series,of less importance as compositions, but lighter, more transparent, andmore limpid in colour. We may take the Young Faun, or Piping Shepherd, in the MunichGallery as the first of this series. Seated on a knoll at the foot of aclump of trees, he holds the pipe to his lips, and plays. To his 1 Tiraboschi, vi. p. 256. Pungileoni, ii. p. 93; iii. pp. 201 and 275. Martini, Studi
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SS. PETER, MARY MAGDALEN, MARTHA, AND S. LEONARD. In ihe Collection of Lord Ashburton. EARLY PICTURES BY CORREGGIO 107 right lies a kind of lute ; on the opposite side, beyond the clusteringfoliage, opens a little valley with a browsing animal. The discordanttones of the sky and mountains are remarkable, and the treatmentof the leaves is very curious, especially in the solitary tree to theleft, but this peculiarity is readily explained if we remember inwhat school Correggio received his first training. These, however,together with one or two other unusual traits, convinced Otto Miindlerthat the picture was the work of Pal ma Vecchio. Even Morelli sup-posed it to be Venetian for some time, and suggested Lorenzo Lottoas the author. There are, in fact, certain affinities between Correggioand the latter, especially in theillumination of certain pictures,which we consider purely acci-dental. Morelli afterwards cor-rected his first impression, re-cognising certain characteristicsof Correggi

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