Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . ISfADONNA .WD CHTL notably Francesco Maria Rondani. A small birci, perched on a twigover the Virgins shoulder, seems to have been roused by the flutterof the angels, and looks alertly round. An Inventory of the Uardrobc of Ranuccio Fariicse, drawn up in1587, shows that the Zingixrclla was the property of that In the Naples Museum. By his will, dated July 23, 1607, he left it to his sister as Sister Maura Lucenia, a nun of the convent of San Paoloof Parma, to which her husband, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke o
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . ISfADONNA .WD CHTL notably Francesco Maria Rondani. A small birci, perched on a twigover the Virgins shoulder, seems to have been roused by the flutterof the angels, and looks alertly round. An Inventory of the Uardrobc of Ranuccio Fariicse, drawn up in1587, shows that the Zingixrclla was the property of that In the Naples Museum. By his will, dated July 23, 1607, he left it to his sister as Sister Maura Lucenia, a nun of the convent of San Paoloof Parma, to which her husband, Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Modena,consigned her in 1583, because of her sterility. To the most serenelady, my sister, I bequeathe, as a token of the love I have always ii8 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO borne, and still bear her, the small panel, commonly called a qiiadrctto(little picture), of the Blessed Virgin Mary, painted by the famouspainter, Antonio of Correggio, and known as La Cingarina, the which,with all my remaining movable goods, is now under the charge of theCavaliere Flaminio Zunti.^ On the death of Sister Maura, the picture did not remain in theconvent, but went back to the Farnese family. It was still in theirpossession a century later, and was removed to Naples with the restof their collection in 1734, when King Charles I. de Bourbon tookpossession of the two Sicilies, and made the city his ca
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