Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . of the figures, the long,scanty folds of the drapery, many of them perfectly straight, themodelling ol the slender hands, the fantastic naivete displayed inthe treatment of the dragon, the facial types, the attitudes, the verydefects, insist on the afliliation of this work to the Frizzoni and Crespiexamples. The St. Martha is true sister to the St. P^rancis in Friz-zonis Marriage of St. Catherine. To assign a later date than that ofthe Dresden altar-piece to this picture would be to upset the entiresystem of evolution as appli
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . of the figures, the long,scanty folds of the drapery, many of them perfectly straight, themodelling ol the slender hands, the fantastic naivete displayed inthe treatment of the dragon, the facial types, the attitudes, the verydefects, insist on the afliliation of this work to the Frizzoni and Crespiexamples. The St. Martha is true sister to the St. P^rancis in Friz-zonis Marriage of St. Catherine. To assign a later date than that ofthe Dresden altar-piece to this picture would be to upset the entiresystem of evolution as applied to Correggios ecnvre. Meyer, infact, who dated it 1518, was much perplexed by the consequentnecessity of reconciling its traditional simplicity of conception andforms with the free treatment of the Repose in Egypt in the Uffizi. ^ Lc vpcrc dci maestri italiaiii, \i. 124. Italian Paintcis, ii. p. 15 Pungileoni, i. p. 59 et sec/. Bigi, Betta vita e delte opere di A. A., p. 52. INIeycr,pp. 101-104, 365, 458. Richter, Correggio, in Kunst und Kiinstler, p. PK1URES TIV rORREOOIO 105 Of this work he possessed a copy, and, according to him, it waspainted before the St. JMarlha. This chronological confusion, however, was based on a historicalerror, or rather, on the misinterpretation of certain documents,which we will briefly examine. In a will dated December 16, 1517, a certain Melchiorre Fassibequeathed his estate to the church of San Ouirino at Correggio,on condition that the church authorities should forthwith build achapel with an altar, and provide it with an altar-piece, representing , St. Leonard, St. .Martha, and St. Mary Magdalen. The church,which had iallen down some three years before, was in course of re-construction, but the work must have gone on very slowly, for itwas not finished till 1550. Maving waited some time for the carryingout of his conditions, Fassi made another will on August 2Q, 1528,renewing his bequest to the church of San Ouirino
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