. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. alsofurnish him with scaffoldings, and with mortar to plaster the walls. Correggios autograph statement, from which the agreement wasdrawn up, is inserted in the latter, and runs as follows : Havingcarefully considered the work which your lordships are pleased toentrust to me, namely, that taking the choir, the cupola, with its archesand great pillars (leaving out the side chapels and going straight to thesanctuary), the frieze, arcade and niche, with its mouldings, and allthe wall-space in the chapel down to the pavement, me
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. alsofurnish him with scaffoldings, and with mortar to plaster the walls. Correggios autograph statement, from which the agreement wasdrawn up, is inserted in the latter, and runs as follows : Havingcarefully considered the work which your lordships are pleased toentrust to me, namely, that taking the choir, the cupola, with its archesand great pillars (leaving out the side chapels and going straight to thesanctuary), the frieze, arcade and niche, with its mouldings, and allthe wall-space in the chapel down to the pavement, measuring some150 square perches, I should decorate them with given subjects inimitation of life, or of bronze or marble, as may best accord with theseveral places, the exigencies of the building, and the beauty and fitness *5* ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO of the paintings themselves ; and having calculated that my outlay for V J **r. W oTJ1-fi™r&jjz~ VV***f a***jyh> *™r~ri coy* A K\> *vAVt* £ / <*»t*H*7n* yr*+Zo nclLvTrU—^ ? -^ uC~ y^f-vurv. IhtA- S^aUUp^^Tijr^0ywfaJ Jbsx\~ w ^-nJfrv -W^- :.. cL dr^ r 1^ 1 a v cf arv / ?j / nH aCrrA <tlr~~7*\ Ift^Urtrf fc *W l . ? Ifc fct i-1 ^•» LORREGGIOS AUTOCKAlH AGREEMENT TO TAINT THE FRESCOES IN THE CATHEDRAL. gold-leaf, colours, and the final coat of cement on which I shall paintwill be ioo ducats, I cannot, having regard to our own honour and
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