Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . there werethree of these in the possession of the Marchese Rondanini at Rome.^It is not improbable that these were the very fragments bought byMr. Mond at the sale of the Dudley collection. {See pp. v. and 139.) Correggios share in the decorations of the nave, such as the frieze,the candelabra on the pilasters, the vaulting, and the archivolts, was limited to the de-signs, and perhapsto the ofa few fragments assamples for his as-sistants. The factof his having, inNovember, 1522,contracted to com-plete the work forsi
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . there werethree of these in the possession of the Marchese Rondanini at Rome.^It is not improbable that these were the very fragments bought byMr. Mond at the sale of the Dudley collection. {See pp. v. and 139.) Correggios share in the decorations of the nave, such as the frieze,the candelabra on the pilasters, the vaulting, and the archivolts, was limited to the de-signs, and perhapsto the ofa few fragments assamples for his as-sistants. The factof his having, inNovember, 1522,contracted to com-plete the work forsixty-six ducats, isby no means in-compatible with theprobability that theless important partsof the undertakingwere intrusted tohis pupils. Rondanis handis, in fact, to berecognised in thefrieze ; that of Anselmi is no less apparent in the arabesques of thevault, and it is futile to appeal to the less conclusive evidence of docu-ments in support of Correggios authorship, as do Baistrocchi - For once we find ourselves in perfect agreement with. ihe Cillery. Mengs, ii. \). 153. IiraboscVite daiiisli, MS. no. 1106, vi. p. 261. in the MisciIhvien, in tlic Royal Library FRIEZE IN THE NAVE Father Resta, who says that Correggio designed the frieze, andthat Rondani painted it. The composition, with its agreeable;diversity of coloured and monochromatic figures, is thoroughly Cor-reggesque. In each of the spaces between the candelabra (on thecapitals of which two cherubs hold up cartels with mottoes) a largefigure of a prophetess or sibyl is painted in colours on either centre is occupied by one of two designs in monochrome,which are repeated alternately the whole way round. The onerepresents a group of per-sons at a tomb ; the other,a crowd assembled roundan altar on the sacrificialfire of which a lamb isburning. x^fter a careful examina-tion of the twelve composi-tions, we came to the con-clusion that one amongthem was executed almostentirely by
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