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 | | This was necessarily an expensive item, and it has been, cited as showing that Correggio must have been at least tolerably well off, an inference further supported by the fact that he used the most precious and costly colours, and generally painted on fine canvases or sometimes on sheets of copper. |
 | | Parma was in an exceedingly unsettled and turbulent condition during some of the years covered by Correggio's labours there, veering between the governmental ascendancy of the French and of the Pope, with wars and rumours of wars, alarms, tumults and pestilence. |
 | | Regarding the art of Correggio from an intellectual or emotional point of view, his supreme gift may be defined as suavity, a vivid, spontaneous, lambent play of the affections, a heartfelt inner grace which fashions the forms and features, and beams like soft and glancing sunshine in the expressions. |
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