. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. In a chapel of the Church of Sant Andrea at Mantua thereis a canvas by Mantegna, of the Madonna with St. Joseph, , the Infant Jesus, the little St. John, and one of theMagi, painted against a background of lemon and orange MADONNA AND CHILD. By Mantegna, in the Uffizi. This work, now blackened and ruined by re-touching, we believeto have been, in its pristine splendour, a typical example of thoseMantegnesque creations which most strongly influenced our painter. 1 Op. cit. p. 67. Other writers besides Meyer
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. In a chapel of the Church of Sant Andrea at Mantua thereis a canvas by Mantegna, of the Madonna with St. Joseph, , the Infant Jesus, the little St. John, and one of theMagi, painted against a background of lemon and orange MADONNA AND CHILD. By Mantegna, in the Uffizi. This work, now blackened and ruined by re-touching, we believeto have been, in its pristine splendour, a typical example of thoseMantegnesque creations which most strongly influenced our painter. 1 Op. cit. p. 67. Other writers besides Meyer have pointed out the affinity betweenthe Camera degli Sposi in Mantua and the Camera di San Paolo at Parma, among themEastlake, Burton, Viscount Both de Tauzia, Paul Mantz, &c. 6o ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO The attitudes of the two seated babes, the extremities, the serenesmile of the Virgin, the type of St. Elizabeth, are all to be recognisedin the suaver and more gracious conceptions of Correggios early-works. If we examine the figures of the little St. John and theSt. Elizabeth, and compare them with those in Cav. Crespis picture,and if we further compare the older Saint with the Elizabeth inthe small picture at Sigmaringen, all doubts as to their affinity mustinevitably be The field of su
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