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PARMIGIANO.
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In the Vienna Gallery are two ; and at Berlin
three—among them the Io and the Leda.
There is in the British Museum a complete col-
lection of engravings after Correggio.
Correggio had no school of painting, and all his
authentic works, except his frescoes, were executed
■solely by his own hand: in the execution of his
frescoes he had assistants, but they could hardly
be called his pupils. He had, however, a host of
imitators who formed what has been called the
School of Parma, of which he is considered the
head. The most famous of these imitators was
Francesco Mazzola, of whom we are now to speak.
PARMIGIANO :
Born 1503; died 1540.
Francesco Mazzola, or Mazzuoli, called Par-
migiano, and, by the Italians, Il Parmigia-
nino (to express by this endearing diminutive the
love as well as the admiration he inspired even
from his boyhood), was a native of Parma, born on
the 11th of January, 1503. He had two uncles
who were painters, and by them he was early
initiated into some knowledge of designing, though
he could have owed little else to them, both being
very mediocre artists. Endowed with a most pre-
cocious genius, ardent in every pursuit, he studied
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199
In the Vienna Gallery are two ; and at Berlin
three—among them the Io and the Leda.
There is in the British Museum a complete col-
lection of engravings after Correggio.
Correggio had no school of painting, and all his
authentic works, except his frescoes, were executed
■solely by his own hand: in the execution of his
frescoes he had assistants, but they could hardly
be called his pupils. He had, however, a host of
imitators who formed what has been called the
School of Parma, of which he is considered the
head. The most famous of these imitators was
Francesco Mazzola, of whom we are now to speak.
PARMIGIANO :
Born 1503; died 1540.
Francesco Mazzola, or Mazzuoli, called Par-
migiano, and, by the Italians, Il Parmigia-
nino (to express by this endearing diminutive the
love as well as the admiration he inspired even
from his boyhood), was a native of Parma, born on
the 11th of January, 1503. He had two uncles
who were painters, and by them he was early
initiated into some knowledge of designing, though
he could have owed little else to them, both being
very mediocre artists. Endowed with a most pre-
cocious genius, ardent in every pursuit, he studied
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