Identifier: antonioallegrida00riccrich (find matches)
Title: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934 Simmons, Florence
Subjects: Correggio, 1489?-1534
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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s for the frames of altar-pieces, and even for thealtars they were to adorn. Girolamo Mazzola-Bedoli delighted inwork of this kind. On the frame of the Madonna dclla Scodclla,especially in the frieze, we find the decorative motives Correggioaffected, such as sea-shells, cornucopias, skulls, and cherubs heads, allof which he introduced in the ornament of his frescoes in the Cameradi San Paolo, and in the cathedral. It is not exactly known who carved it. The style of the execution,and the date, suggest the name of Gian Francesco Zucchi, whocarved the frame for the Conception at about this time, in the samestyle, putting the same plaster preparation on the wood, and gilding itin the same manner. Many writers have supposed, and still suppose, that the picturerepresents an episode of the Flight into Egypt, whereas it reallydeals with an incident of the Return from Egypt. The Babe is no I.ianconi also bought iiictiires for Augustus III. Tiraboschi, vi. ))p. 270-271. M/adonna delta Scodcl/a.
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Tin: MADOXXA DllLLA SCOl )1:LLA 287 lunger in his first infancy, and St. Joseph and the mother are cahn andcheerful, as if they had no further cause for fear or anxiety. .ScannelHwas perhaps the first who grasped the real significance of the compo-sition : the picture, he says, shows how the Blessed Virgin returnedwith the youthful Jesus and St. Joseph to Nazareth from Egypt, whitherthey had fled from the persecution of Herod, and how, halting on theirway in an open plain, in which was a palm-tree, with dates, the goodSt. Joseph gathered some of the fruit to satisfy the hunger of the HolyChild. 1 The subject of this work, which Vasari Ccdls a divine jjicture withmarvellous figures, - is taken from one of the apocryphal gospels,which relates how, when the Holy Child and his parents were ex-hausted with their journey, a palm-tree bent down to offer its fruit,while from the parched ground at their feet a limpid fountain gushedforth.^ From the pleasing and gracious elements of this legend

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