Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . Morelli was pleased to suggestDosso as its author^ and Liibke gave it to Lorenzo As, inany case, it has no pretensions to be Included in Correggios a-iivre, weneed not linger over its history. In addition to the Madonna of San Francesco, at Dresden, the Repose in Egypt,at Florence, andthe St. Marthain London, thecity of Correggioonce owned oth-er early works byAllegri, amongthem a Herodias,a triptych, and,if we accept thetestimony of wit-nesses alreadyquoted, certainfrescoes in thepalace and villaof the suc
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . Morelli was pleased to suggestDosso as its author^ and Liibke gave it to Lorenzo As, inany case, it has no pretensions to be Included in Correggios a-iivre, weneed not linger over its history. In addition to the Madonna of San Francesco, at Dresden, the Repose in Egypt,at Florence, andthe St. Marthain London, thecity of Correggioonce owned oth-er early works byAllegri, amongthem a Herodias,a triptych, and,if we accept thetestimony of wit-nesses alreadyquoted, certainfrescoes in thepalace and villaof the such me-morials of hergreat masterhave, however,disappeared from the city. Like Urbino, she retains nothing of her famous son buthis name No trace whatever remains of the Herodias receiving tlie Head ofJohn the Baptist from the Executioner. In 17S3 Antonioli wrote asfollows to Girolamo Tiraboschi : It must certainly have beenordered by the Countess Veronica after her return from Brescia, and Italian J\ilii/as, li. p. 158. - Einii sur etc fart, ii. p. In the Prado, Madri LOST IRiriNCII i;\ (ORRICCMO 121 after the terrible catastrophe of the capture of that city by the. Frenchunder the haughty Gaston de I\)ix. The potential form of thisstatement, which lacks the confirmation of other documents, makes itof little value as evidence. It has been asserted 1)\ some- writers that this picture wasoriginally in theoratory of theMisericordia. Ina manuscript let-ter quoted byTiraboschi andP u n g i 1 e o n i ,signed with thep s e u d o n ) mPictro Rails, ofBcriic, thesewords occur: There werealso two otherpictures in thesaid hospital bythe same painter,which, althoughearly works,were so greatlyprized that cer-tain ignorantofificials, fearing they might be carried off, caused them to be covered with a thickvarnish, which destroyed all their beauty. One of these twopictures, was, as we know, Lord Ashburtons Sf. Martha ; the otheris supposed to have been the Hcrodias. But Brunori
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