. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN, BY CORREGGIO. (Fresco, now in the Palatine Library at Parma.) PREFACE. T HE earliest biography ofCorreggio is that inVasarisLives, a valuable record, inspite of the admixture of fablewith its more sober details. Nocontemporary of the masters leftany account of him; his name,indeed, was never mentioned byany writer of his day, not evenby Ariosto, who was the friend and intimate of the Lords of Correggio,and who enumerates the most famous painters of the period in a well-known passage of his great
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. THE CORONATION OF THE VIRGIN, BY CORREGGIO. (Fresco, now in the Palatine Library at Parma.) PREFACE. T HE earliest biography ofCorreggio is that inVasarisLives, a valuable record, inspite of the admixture of fablewith its more sober details. Nocontemporary of the masters leftany account of him; his name,indeed, was never mentioned byany writer of his day, not evenby Ariosto, who was the friend and intimate of the Lords of Correggio,and who enumerates the most famous painters of the period in a well-known passage of his great poem. When Vasari collected his material,he found it already overlaid with legends and improbabilities ; andthose who are familiar with the critical methods of his age will not beinclined to blame him too severely for having occasionally bound up FRAGMENT OF A FRESCO, BY CORREGGIO. Mr. L. Mond, London. vm PREFACE biography of the Emilian painter, published at Leipzig in had carefully studied all the works of his predecessors ; he hadexamined the masters works, and collected copies, engravings, andphotographs. He wrote incisively, courageously denying C
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