Identifier: antonioallegrida00ricc (find matches)
Title: Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ricci, Corrado, 1858-1934
Subjects: Correggio, 1489?-1534
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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he damage done to the picture by Ercole dell Abate,who exposed it to the sun, to make the colours blend. The doubleinjury inflicted by these two artists was slight, however, when comparedwith the havoc wrought shortly afterwards by the Bolognese, FlaminioTorri, who repainted it almost entirely. Mengs also speaks of certainscratches made in the process of its transport, and repaired at Dresden.3 1 Scannelli, Microcosmo della ftitiura, p. 289. 2 There is a copy of this childs head, perhaps by Federigo Barocci, in the PittiGallery at Florence. 3 Opere, ii. p. 166. THE MADONNA WITH ST. JEROME 277 The state to which it had been reduced may be imagined from the factthat when Palmaroli was commissioned to remove the over-paints, hebrought to light several cherub heads which had been completely-hidden. Such a succession of outrages resulted, as may be supposed,in the destruction of the original harmonies ; the shadows have beenrobbed of their richness and delicacy, and the figures have become
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VIEW OF MODENA. harsh and rough in parts, especially the St. Sebastian and the St.Geminianus.1 The so-called St. Jerome Madonna, now one of the chief orna-ments of the Parma Gallery, is in a very different state.2 Thereare no original documents now extant which show in what year it was 1 The legs and hands of the St. Sebastian are entirely ruined; the hands of the St.Geminianus have been partly repainted ; St. Rochs face has been retouched, etc. Infact, this is one of the most severely handled of all Correggios works. 2 Some writers have attempted to christen this picture // Giorno (Day), in contrast toLa Notte (Night), in the Dresden Gallery. 278 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO ordered or paid for; but the writer of the memoir already quoted in thearchives of the monastery of Sant Antonio seems to have seen suchdocuments, if indeed he was not drawing on his imagination. We quotefrom Pungileonis transcription : The famous altar-piece of St. Jeromewas ordered in 1523 by Donna Briseide Colla, wife

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