Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . a white handkerchief Over her white dress she wears a brightblue mantle. The Child lies on her lap, supported by her left hand, onwhich he la\-s his little fingers caressingly. With her right hand sheholds one of his feet, as in the Sigmaringen picture. The Babe issleeping, and the mother, bending tenderly over him, seems in the Repose in Egypt, the two figures are somewhat crudelyilluminated by a warm twilight glow. The forest round them is fullof life ; a rabbit peers at them curiously from the left, and amongthe pa
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . a white handkerchief Over her white dress she wears a brightblue mantle. The Child lies on her lap, supported by her left hand, onwhich he la\-s his little fingers caressingly. With her right hand sheholds one of his feet, as in the Sigmaringen picture. The Babe issleeping, and the mother, bending tenderly over him, seems in the Repose in Egypt, the two figures are somewhat crudelyilluminated by a warm twilight glow. The forest round them is fullof life ; a rabbit peers at them curiously from the left, and amongthe palms above their heads hovers a band of angels, which somestrange fancy of the artists has caused him to paint in the greenishtones of antique bronzes, a peculiarity copied by some of his disciples, Pungileoni, i. pp. 46, 47, 71, 72, 73; ii. i). 74. Ad. Venturi, Gallcria es/eiise,p. 242 et seq. There was a good copy of the picture at the exhibition of Correggiosworks held at Parma in 1S94. See Ca/a/ogo delta iiiostra Con-eggcsca in Panna, No. 82p. 6. Parma, 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 prince.
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