Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 1) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

LOMBARD SCHOOL.—ludovico caracce. S3

the finest works of Correggio. In point of draw-
ing and sentiment, he has in this work rivalled
the most renowned pictures of Raphael. It is a
chef-d’oeuvre of art, and worthy of the deep re-
flection of every one who desires to study the
great works of this school.

LUDOVICO CARACCE.
Born at Bologna, in 1555.
Died in . . 1619, aged 64.
Ludovico may be considered as the founder of
that greatness, to which this school through the
united talents of Annibal, and Augostino Caracce,
of Domenichino, Guido, and Albano, afterwards
arrived.—He was born five years before Annibal,
and, as has been seen in the preceding article, was
the cause which at an early period produced a
developement of that master’s brilliant talents.
Ludovico was the scholar of Prospera Fontana ;
but the low state in which the art then was at
Bologna, soon pointed out to him that he must
have recourse to other instructors, and that in
order to make that figure in the art, of which his
own native genius pointed out to him that he was
capable, he must have recourse to the works of
the illustrious dead. He therefore lost no time in
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