. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. STUDY FOR ANTIOPE, BY CORREGGIO. In the Royal Library, Windsor. Her right arm supports her head in such a manner as to show the fullcurve of the neck, shaded by a few stray locks of her fair hair. Theample development of the bust is in somewhat curious contrast with Ant ANTIOPE 3°3 the foreshortened legs, which have a slightly shrunken the difficulties of the pose have been overcome with such novelease and vigour as to excite the admiration of artists in successivegenerations, Rembrandt among the number,
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. STUDY FOR ANTIOPE, BY CORREGGIO. In the Royal Library, Windsor. Her right arm supports her head in such a manner as to show the fullcurve of the neck, shaded by a few stray locks of her fair hair. Theample development of the bust is in somewhat curious contrast with Ant ANTIOPE 3°3 the foreshortened legs, which have a slightly shrunken the difficulties of the pose have been overcome with such novelease and vigour as to excite the admiration of artists in successivegenerations, Rembrandt among the number, and Guercino, whoimitated the attitude in his Susannah, now in the Pitti Gallery atFlorence. The nymph sleeps; but the warm, soft flesh of hersuperbly modelled body seems to quiver, as if under the influence ofsome voluptuous Antiope, daughter of Nycteus, King ofThebes, and the nymph Polyxo, was famous throughout Greece forher beauty and her adventures. Jupiter, desiring to possess her,transformed himself into a Satyr. Correggio, or the friend who furnished him with the argumentof his picture, has confused two distinct mythological bow under Antiopes left hand, and the large quiver, coveredwith hide, in the background, show that he supposed the Antiopebeloved by Jupiter to have been, not the daughter of Nycte
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