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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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of these he signed withhis name, on othershe painted the threeswallows of his coatof arms. He fol-lowed Correggiosmanner as closely ashe could, but hisdrawing is oftencoarse, and his exe-cution slovenly. Hisworks have, how-ever, a certain viva-city of colour andbreadth of composi-tion, and in his land-scape backgroundshe shows a talentcertainly above theaverage.1 He was,however, greatly in-ferior, not only to hismaster, but to Michel-angelo Anselmi, whohad had the advan-tage of an early training in the Tuscan school. (See illustration on p. 367.) 1 The materials for the notices of artists given in this chapter are mainly taken fromthe valuable unpublished extracts from contemporary documents made by E. Scarabelli-Zunti (now in the Royal Museum of Parma), to which we have before referred. See alsoRomualdo Baistrocchi, Notizie dei pittori che lavorarono in Parma, MS., and Bertoluzzi,Descrizione della cappella della Concezione, MS. (Miscellanea, no. 1106, in the PalatineLibrary, Parma).
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MADONNA AND CHILD, WITH SAINTS, BY RONDANI. In the Naples Museum. 372 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO Anselmi was born in 1491 at Lucca, where his father, a native ofParma, was living in exile. From Lucca he removed with his familyto Siena, about 1500. At Siena he entered Sodomas studio, remainingin the city after his father was permitted to return to Parma in 1505.There is a Visitation of little beauty at Siena, painted by him for theConfraiemita di Fonte Giusta. In reference to his long sojourn inSiena, he was known as Michelangelo Senese. The first documentsin which his name occurs are dated April, 1520. They speak of himas a citizen of Parma, and deal with a donation made to him byhis uncle, Francesco Anselmi, and with the dowry of his bride, oneIppolita Gaibazzi. The influence of Correggios genius is very appar-ent in his art. Among his first works at Parma were the arabesqueson the vaulting of the nave in San Giovanni Evangelista, executed,as we have already seen, under Correggios directio

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