Identifier: greatpicturesassx00sing (find matches)
Title: Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Shepherdess herself entering the stable. When Correggio excels he is a painter worthy ofAthens, wrote Diderot, whose art criticism had in itmore of sentiment than knowledge. With Correggio everything is large and graceful, saidLouis Carrache, who gave Correggio a large place in hiseclecticism. But after studying and weighing everything,from his somewhat excessive qualities it follows thatCorreggio was more of an idealist than a mystic andobeyed Art more than Faith, with a leaning towards theapotheosis of form. He painted Io and Jupiter for Fred-erick Gonzaga of Mantua. This picture having passedto the son of the Regent, the two passionate heads sostrongly troubled his prudery that he cut them out andburned them. Coypel then begged the Prince to sparethe rest and to give it to him. He obtained it on conditionthat he would make good use of it, and on the deathof Coypel, M. Pasquier, depute du Commerce de Rouen,paid 16,500 livres for the mutilated remains, as I find ina very old account.
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w1-1< Q o< MAGDALEN IN THE DESERT 2Q All the great museums of the world possess Correggios,and I will only mention the exquisite Saint Catherine andthe resplendent Antiope of the Louvre ; the Danae of theBorghese Gallery, a chef-doeuvre of grace and delicacy ;and, finally, in the Dresden Gallery, our Magdalen in theDesert, that jewel so well-known and so often reproduced. This Magdalen as a matter of fact holds the first placeamong the small Correggios. There are two kinds ofMagdalens in art : I. the Repentant, emaciated, growingugly, disfigured by tears and penitence at the end of herlife, with a skull in her hand or before her eyes, not havinghad even — like the one sculptured in the Cathedral ofRouen — for three times ten winters any other vesturethan her long hair, according to Petrarchs verse; II. theSinner, always young, always beautiful, always seductive,who has not lost any of her charms nor even of hercoquetry, and with whom the Book of Life takes the placeof the De

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