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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
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ST. THOMAS.Pendentive of the Cupola in the Cathedral at Parma. DEFECTS OF THE COMPOSITION 265 even now, although the cupola is sullied with dust and smoke, andin many parts defaced and reduced to ruin. This process of decay has no doubt robbed the figures of much oftheir original clearness of outline, but we cannot think that the com-position was ever a perfectly coherent and comprehensible one, evenin its first freshness. The genius of Correggio, with its great facility in resolving all
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GROUP SURROUNDING THE ASCENDING VIRGIN. Fresco in the Cupola of the Cathedral at Parma. problems of perspective in the rendering of the human form, with itsfaculty for the expression of life and emotion, with all the resources ofits brilliant technique, its gifts of draughtsmanship and colour, failed tokeep within due bounds in the execution of this work, and allowed theexuberance of his fancy and the mastery of his hand too unrestraineda license. It is true, of course, that such excesses are only possibleto superior minds ; to a Dante, plunging deep into the mysterious M M 266 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO subtleties of theology and metaphysics, as in his Paradiso, or to aWagner, seeking too vast a significance in the world of harmony, as inhis later works. Nevertheless, when an artist no longer limits himselfto the spontaneous expression of his conception by the exercise of hisexceptional gifts, but takes pleasure in the creation of difficulties toovercome, he may arouse admiration and amaze

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksponsor:Brigham_Young_University
  • bookleafnumber:393
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