. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. Morelli was pleased to suggestDosso as its author1 and Liibke gave it to Lorenzo As, inany case, it has no pretensions to be included in Correggios ceuvre, 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 author1 and Liibke gave it to Lorenzo As, inany case, it has no pretensions to be included in Correggios ceuvre, 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 the Head of John the Baptist from the Executioner. In 1783 Antonioli wrote as follows to Girolamo Tiraboschi : It must certainly have been ordered by the Countess Veronica after her return from Brescia, and 1 Italian Painters, ii. p. 158. 2 Essai sur Vhistoire de Vart, ii. p. THE MADONNA WITH THE TWO CHILDREN, BV CORREGGIO. In the Prado, Madrid. LOST TRIPTYCH BY CORREGGIO 12 I after the terrible catastrophe of the capture of that city by the Frenchunder the haughty Gaston de The potential form of thisstatement, which lacks the confirmation of other documents, makes itof little value as evidence. It has been asserted by 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 thepseudonymPietro Rans, ofBerne, thesewords occur: There werealso two otherpictures in thesaid hospital bythe same painter,which, althoughearly works,were so greatlyprized that cer-tain ignorantofficials, 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 St. Martha ; the otheris supposed
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