Identifier: antonioallegrida00ricc (find matches)
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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hegrowing structures to enable painters and sculptors to adorn the wholewith ornament and figures. It was at the moment when the aesthetic enthusiasm was at itsheight that Correggio came, like some beneficent spirit, to Parma.Little reason indeed is there to lament the fact that he never visitedRome or any other great city! Parma, rising in smiling tranquillity CORRECxCxIO AT PARMA 5 upon her fertile plains, girdled by castles and villages, and looking outupon the vaporous line of hills from which the streams which giveher water descend into the champaign, offered our painter not onlythe serenity that suited his temperament, but a vaster field ofactivity than hadever been allot-ted to any artist.There were al-tar-pieces to bepainted, roomsto be decorated ;the joyous fan-cies of his geniuswere to be allow-ed ample scopein the decorationof two statelycupolas. Whatgreater oppor-tunities hadM i c helangeloand Raphael atRome, Leonardoat Milan, orTitian at Venice?Biographersdiffer as to the
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THE ANNUNCIATION, WITH ST. CATHERINE AND ST. SEBASTIAN, ASCRIBED TOLODOVICO DA PARMA OR TO ARALDI. In the Parma Gallery. exact date whenCorreggio wassummoned to Parma. Some say 1518, others 1519. Some, again, declare that the in-vitation came from the Benedictines of San Giovanni Evangelista, othersthat it was given by Giovanna Piacenza, the abbess of San Paolo.1 1 Pungileoni, i. p. 76 et seq. Meyer, p. 111. Martini, p. 73. Richter, p. 15 et seq.Rondani, Come visse il Correggio, p. 45, etc. ^52 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO We have no positive evidence on either point; but history anda critical examination of the masters work seem alike to lead to theconclusion that Correggio came to Parma in 1518, to work in theconvent of San Paolo. He was in his native city in the spring of 1518. He appears aswitness to a deed in January of that year, and acted as sponsor to an infant girl onMarch 17.1 Through-out the remainingmonths we find nomention of him. Where was he ?What was he doing atthis time ? The

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