. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. ed neither by threats nor by martyrdom, 1 Several copies were made from these pictures, two of which are in the Prado atMadrid. 2 I. Affo, // Parmigiano senntore di Piazza, p. 85. Parma, 1796. Pungileoni, 149; ii. p. 187, etc. 3 Both pictures were cleaned and slightly retouched, first in Paris and afterwards inParma. They are, however, in fairly good condition, the restorations being confined tothe less important parts. 4 E. Scarabelli-Zunti, Documenti e memorie di belle arti parmigiane. MSS. in theMuseum of Antiquities
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. ed neither by threats nor by martyrdom, 1 Several copies were made from these pictures, two of which are in the Prado atMadrid. 2 I. Affo, // Parmigiano senntore di Piazza, p. 85. Parma, 1796. Pungileoni, 149; ii. p. 187, etc. 3 Both pictures were cleaned and slightly retouched, first in Paris and afterwards inParma. They are, however, in fairly good condition, the restorations being confined tothe less important parts. 4 E. Scarabelli-Zunti, Documenti e memorie di belle arti parmigiane. MSS. in theMuseum of Antiquities at Parma. 220 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO which they suffered with great fortitude, rejoicing that their state ofbeatitude should be thus This episode, which furnished the argument of one picture, wasno doubt chosen by Don Placido del Bono with the double object ofexalting St. Benedict and glorifying the saint whose name he bore. Correggio made a preliminary study of the arrangement of thesefigures, differing considerably from that he afterwards adopted in the. STUDY FOR THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. PLACIDUS AND ST. FLAVIA, BY CORREGGIO. In the Louvre. picture. The drawing, in red pencil, is now in the Acomparison of this, the painters first thought, with the finished work,is of great interest. We see how earnestly he sought to avoid apartly symmetrical arrangement, and give movement and variety tothe drama. In the study, the angel bearing the palm and crown of martyrdom 1 Acta Sanctorum, October 5. Giovanni Croiset, Le Vite dei Satiti, iii. p. , 1728. 2 This drawing was also at Modena in the eighteenth century. Tiraboschi, vi. p. 288.
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