Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . Pcndentive of the Cupola in the DEFECTS Ol- THE COMPOSTTION 265 even now, although the cii|)ola is sulHed 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. Init 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. Fresco in the Cupola of the Cathedral at Parma. problems
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . Pcndentive of the Cupola in the DEFECTS Ol- THE COMPOSTTION 265 even now, although the cii|)ola is sulHed 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. Init 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. 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 MM 266 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO subtleties of theology and metaphysics, as in his Paradise, 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 amazement in the souls ofothers, but not that
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