. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. In this contemptuous phrase our painter only received the usualmeasure meted out to those whose genius is in advance of their crowd is never willing to confess itself unable to understand anexceptional work. The mediocre cavil at those who cannot descendto their level, though they are ready enough to exalt them after theyare dead, when the artists conception, surviving his body, triumphs atlast over ignorance and misapprehension. Correggio, conscious of thegreatness of his work, musthave been keenly wounded,less by
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. In this contemptuous phrase our painter only received the usualmeasure meted out to those whose genius is in advance of their crowd is never willing to confess itself unable to understand anexceptional work. The mediocre cavil at those who cannot descendto their level, though they are ready enough to exalt them after theyare dead, when the artists conception, surviving his body, triumphs atlast over ignorance and misapprehension. Correggio, conscious of thegreatness of his work, musthave been keenly wounded,less by the criticism itself thanby the ludicrous form in whichit was expressed. The nameof the canon who hailed thecompletion of an immortalwork with this phrase has notcome down to us, fortunatelyfor him; it would have acquireda fame by no means if it be true that everypoetical work lends itself toparody, and that the mostbeautiful face may afford asubject for good-natured cari-cature, may we not accept thishash of frogs as a quipnot altogether infelicitous
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