. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. ve passages of greatbeauty, are among the least satisfactory of the masters works. On the other hand, his own delighted emotion overflows when hecan fittingly give himself up to the expression of triumphant life, oflaughter, of rapture! Michelangelo, always grandiose and disdainful, seldom smiled him-self, and seldom created a smiling face. When his statue of Julius first displayed, it was asked whether he had intended to representthe Pope in the act of blessing or of cursing. Lofty and generous, hewas saddened by scor
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. ve passages of greatbeauty, are among the least satisfactory of the masters works. On the other hand, his own delighted emotion overflows when hecan fittingly give himself up to the expression of triumphant life, oflaughter, of rapture! Michelangelo, always grandiose and disdainful, seldom smiled him-self, and seldom created a smiling face. When his statue of Julius first displayed, it was asked whether he had intended to representthe Pope in the act of blessing or of cursing. Lofty and generous, hewas saddened by scorn of the ignoble conflicts which rent Italy asunder,and finally destroyed her liberty, leading at last to the solemn con-secration of her slavery by the coronation of Charles V. He was theartist of the grave and the sublime. 1 See Mengs, ii. p. 140. Tiraboschi, vi. p. 245. Pungileoni, i. p. 177; ii. pp. 196, 206, etc. 356 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO Raphael touched the classic dignity of his forms with the mingledsweetness and melancholy of his own angelic character. His. THE VIRGIN AND DEAD CHRIST, BY CORREGGIO. Fragment from the Pieta in the Parma Gallery. Madonnas often seem to gaze at the Child with infinite sadness, as ifpresaging the mournful end, and agitated by the vision of Calvary. CORREGGIOS PUTTI 357 Leonardo, the darling of Nature, showed a deeper and more variedrange of feeling. To him was it first given to portray the joy ofspiritual bliss, the intimate beauty of the soul. His heart and mindbrooded on every problem of art and science, eager to embrace allknowledge. He designed buildings, invented machines, studied theoperations of water and of light, the structure of plants, the habits ofanimals, the anatomy of the human body. He sought the beautiful inall things, and strove to reproduce it with the perfection of technicalmastery. A great artist, he divined and resolved an infinity of scientificproblems, the poet and the prophet of aesthetics and of very u
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