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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h the intermediary of theComte dEpinailles. In 1806 they were carried off to Paris byNapoleon, but were restored eight years later, and in 1830 they wereplaced in the Berlin Gallery, where they still remain.2 The Danae, which had escaped the ferocious prudery of Louis ofOrleans, passed to London with the rest of the family collection, and 1 Mengs, ii. p. 146. Tiraboschi, p. 62. 2 Meyer, p. 347. Bode, K. Museen zu Berlin. Besclireibendes Verzeichniss devGemdlde, pp. 3-4. Berlin, 1891. THE 10 IN THE VIENNA GALLERY 3i5 was there soldto the Duke ofBridgewater.In 1816 itwas bought byHenry Hopefor ^183. In1823 it return-ed to Paris,where it foundanother pur-chaser, whofinally sold itto the Prin-cess Borghese.The Princesstook it toRome, andplaced it inher famousgallery, ofwhich it nowforms one ofthe chief orna-ments.1 Thus re-duced to a briefnarrative offacts gleaned 1 GiovanniMorelli, The Bor-ghese Gallery,Italiati Painters,ii. p. 226. Ad.Venturi, Museo egalleria borghese,p. 94. Rome, 1893.
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10, BY CORREGGIO. In the Belvedere, Vienna. 3i6 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO from various sources, and set forth collectively, the history ofCorreggios mythological pictures no longer presents the apparentdifficulties and contradictions that confront us in the biographies whichattempt to trace the career of each work separately. Io, a nymph of Thessaly, and priestess of Juno, was returningfrom visiting her father. Jupiter saw her, and, enamoured of heryouth and beauty, made himself known to her as lord of the universeand of thunder, and declared his passion. Alarmed at his overtures,Io fled in terror across the plains of Arcadia ; but Jove pursued andovertook her, enveloped her in a dense mist, and, transforming himselfinto a cloud, or rather concealing himself in one, embraced her. It isthis supreme moment of the drama which Correggio has rendered withan art and sentiment of extraordinary force and novelty. Io, half seated, half reclining on a rising knoll, on which her whitedrapery is dispo

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