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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Pendentive of llie Cujiola in the Cjthedral at Parma. THE ASSUMPTION OK -l-HK VIRGIN 261 out cups and small vessels for the incense they pour upon the flamin<^candelabra, stirring up the perfume of the censers, smelling their hands,still fragrant with the dust of the incense, casting sprigs of juniper intothe blaze, conversing softly as they gaze into the church, or turningtheir faces heavenward—all supremely beautiful, and full of joyful satis-faction as they tend the festal fires, and raise vast volumes of fragrantsmoke to the glory of the ascending Virgin. From the quiet movement of the figures in the pendentives andthe joyful activity of the genii on the gallery, we pass in an instant to theswift and rapturous flight of the innumerable host encircling the Virgin,who, in a red robe and flowing blue mantle, a yellow veil streamingacross her breast, rises with outstretched arms, and eyes upturned to the golden radiance of the sky above. Angels and cherubs accompanyher, dancing in

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