Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . urse of the youthful talent has, how-ever, a personal note which makesit impossible to consider himmerely as the pupil or imitator ofCorreggio. His frescoes on thesoffits in San Giovanni Evangel-ista, some of which are still in ad-mirable condition, date from i 522, I„ ,|!c UIT,/i (bllervand were painted immediately after his return from Viadana, whither his parents had sent him that hemight be safe from those perils of war we have described. He engagedto paint one of the bays of the cathedral ; but as th
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . urse of the youthful talent has, how-ever, a personal note which makesit impossible to consider himmerely as the pupil or imitator ofCorreggio. His frescoes on thesoffits in San Giovanni Evangel-ista, some of which are still in ad-mirable condition, date from i 522, I„ ,|!c UIT,/i (bllervand were painted immediately after his return from Viadana, whither his parents had sent him that hemight be safe from those perils of war we have described. He engagedto paint one of the bays of the cathedral ; but as the preliminaries ofthis undertaking were not carried out with sufficient expedition bythe churchwardens, his impatience to go to Rome and see the works ofRaphael and Michelangelo, tlelermined him to resign the left Parma in 1523, carrying with him sampks of his works tosubmit to Clement VH., who hatl jusl been elected Pope. He re-mained some years in Rome, where he was largely employed andpatronised. He is said to ha\-e been extremely handsome, and. 374 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO there is a tradition that he found favour with the famous courtesan,Antea. The perils of the terrible sack in 1527 forced him to take hisdeparture. Vasari relates that he barely escaped with his life, inas-much as, at the beginning of the sack, he w-as so intent on his work,that when the soldiers began to enter the houses, and some Germanswere already in his own, he was not distracted by the tumult ; when,however, the soldiers came upon him, and saw him painting, they were
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