Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . THE GROWm OF CORRFXIGIOS FAME 387. Scala was carefullypreserved when thenew bastions wereerected ; that theFathers of the An-nunciation battenedand clamped thepiece of wall onwhich their frescowas painted, andtransferred it for ^ ^^^^^^. ^^^^^^l^^^^^^ safety from one church to another. These facts, which atone in some degree forthe wanton destruction of his fresco in the choir of the Benedictinechurch, sufficiently prove that Correggios work was treated withpeculiar reverence by his immediate survivors. Historians and write
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . THE GROWm OF CORRFXIGIOS FAME 387. Scala was carefullypreserved when thenew bastions wereerected ; that theFathers of the An-nunciation battenedand clamped thepiece of wall onwhich their frescowas painted, andtransferred it for ^ ^^^^^^. ^^^^^^l^^^^^^ safety from one church to another. These facts, which atone in some degree forthe wanton destruction of his fresco in the choir of the Benedictinechurch, sufficiently prove that Correggios work was treated withpeculiar reverence by his immediate survivors. Historians and writers of treatises were not long silent. In 1552 Landi described him as a painter nobly formed by Nature herself, rather than by any master. No one, he adds, excelled him in the painting of children, the treatment of draperies, and the rendering of hair. ^ Fabio Segni praised him in two epigrams preserved by Lodovico Dolce, speaking of Giulio Romano, declares him to be eclipsed by the finer colour and the greater charm of Antonio da Correggio, a superb master, by whom there are pictures in P
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