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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red and philosophic of modern times, it proved a dangerousprecedent for his successors. In copying or imitating Correggiosworks they were met in this instance by the insuperable difficultyof reproducing the sen-timent of the original.The result has beenthat whereas there aremany fairly good copiesof the Ecce Homo,there is not one of theDescent from the Crosswhich is even tolerable.And further, we findthat those artists whomost successfullystudied and adoptedCorreggesque forms(Annibale Carracci, forinstance, and Lan-franco) accepted theVirgin of the EcceHomo as the type ofthe Mater Dolorosa. The emotion ex-pressed by the Saviouris less impressive. Hisis not the anguishborn of a conscious-ness of human weak-ness and misery, but the individual agony of one who, sufferingacutely, has not sufficient fortitude to repress the external evidencesof his pain. The history of the original, like that of many other pictures byCorreggio, is a perfect maze of contradictions and inaccuracies. It G G 2
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FIGURE OF AN APOSTLE, BY CORREGGIO. Study for the Cupola of the Cathedral at Parma.In the Vienna Museum. 228 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO

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