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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f the most curious and important in ourliterature. Simultaneously with the revival in art and letters, a great scientificdevelopment took place in Parma, whose schools produced studentslike Giovanni Buralli, better known as Fra Giovanni of Parma,the famous professor of the old University of Paris, and Bartolomeoof Parma, the author of various astronomical works, and one of the 1 G. B. Toschi is the author of an excellent study on B. Antelamis sculptures at BorgoSan Donnino, in the Archivio storico delle arti, i. p. 14 et seq., but a fuller monograph ismuch needed. ART IN PARMA 145 clearest and most sagacious intellects of Italy in the thirteenthcentury. l Painting, too, has a venerable and continuous history in Parma,tracing its origin to one Everardo, who laboured there in 1068. Fromthis time forward, as we know from the wall-paintings in the baptisterythe cathedral, and various other churches, to say nothing of con-temporary records, Parma boasts a long series of painters. It cannot
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CATHEDRAL AND BAPTISTERY, PARMA. be said, however, that she owned an individual school before the timeof Correggio. Her art was not even distinguished, like that ofBologna, by the predominance of a special type, which in the caseof the latter, culminated in the school of Francia. Parma, thoughshe owned many excellent painters, showed an over-eclectic tendency, 1 Giovanni Mariotti, Memorie e documents per la storia della Ufiiversita di Parma nelMedioevo. Parma, 1888. U 146 ANTONIO DA CORREGGIO and this lack of aesthetic concentration delayed the formation of acharacteristic style, and prevents her from figuring prominently inthe early history of art. Her geographical position was perhaps not the least among thedetermining causes of this result. Ferrarese and Bolognese influencesreached her in a somewhat languid condition, contending as they didagainst Lombard activity, and more especially against the mediocreform it had assumed in Cremona ; they were further counteracted bythe strong a

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