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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PORTRAIT OF PARMIGIANINO, BY HIMSELF. Iii the Uffizi Gallery. 374 ANTONIO DACORREGGIO there is a tradition that he found favour with the famous courtesan,An tea. The perils of the terrible sack in 1527 forced him to take hisdeparture. Vasari relates that he barely escaped with his life, inas-much as, at the beginning of the sack, he was so intent on his work,that when the soldiers began to enter the houses, and some Germanswere already in his own, he was not distracted by the tumult ; when,however, the soldiers came upon him, and saw him painting, they were
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MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHERINE, HY J-ARMIGIANIXO. In the Parma Gallery. so astonished at his work, that, like good fellows as they must have-been, they allowed him to continue it. On his way back, he halted at Bologna, where he painted severalpictures. After the coronation of Charles V., whose portrait he painted,he returned to Parma. In 1531 he undertook to decorate the vault of thepresbytery and of the apse, and the dome of the Steccata ; but he workedslowly and fitfully, distracted by his impatient temper, and by his absorp-tion in the mysteries of alchemy. Hence arose many disputes betweenthe artist and the guardians of the church. Piqued and angry, he at last PARMIGIANINO 375 left Parma in dudgeon. It was then that he became the guest of Sanvitaleat the Castle of Fontanellato, where he painted the vault of a smallroom with scenes from the legend of Diana and Action. In 1535 herenewed his agreement for the decorations in the Steccata, and beganto work there. But fresh causes of quarrel

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