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THE WORKS OF
wiffied to represent as seen at a distance, he
has not only /haded lighter than the painters do
at present, but he has diminished also the lights,
lightened the contours, and confused the forms
by means of the distance; and all without ever
departing from the limits of truth.
The Duke of Alva has a painting of Correggio,
os figures little less than natural, painted on cap-
vass, and represents Mercury, who teaches Cu-
pid to read in the presence of Venus. This last
sigure has the peculiarity os having wings, and a
bow in the left hand: it is beautiful, and one
plainly discovers that Correggio, in executing it,
had present the Apollo of the Villa of Medici,
which is now at Florence. The Cupid expresses
all the innocence of his age: the hair is rich and
wonderfully executed; it appears that one sees
the epidermis; and it is finished without appearing
dry. His little wings are like those of nestling
birds, who sill leave the sicin visible, and the
quills of the seathers. Whenever Correggio
painted wings, he attached them in the same
manner as in this painting, placing them imme-
diately behind the shoulders, in a manner that
they united so well with the desh, that they ef-
fectively appeared as a member united with the
superior part of the acromion ; from whence the
deceased Duke, who was the possessor of that
painting, was right in telling me that the wings
of that Cupid were so well situated, that if it were
possible that a child could be born with wing%
he could not have them in any other manner.
Generally other painters who make wings, afe
THE WORKS OF
wiffied to represent as seen at a distance, he
has not only /haded lighter than the painters do
at present, but he has diminished also the lights,
lightened the contours, and confused the forms
by means of the distance; and all without ever
departing from the limits of truth.
The Duke of Alva has a painting of Correggio,
os figures little less than natural, painted on cap-
vass, and represents Mercury, who teaches Cu-
pid to read in the presence of Venus. This last
sigure has the peculiarity os having wings, and a
bow in the left hand: it is beautiful, and one
plainly discovers that Correggio, in executing it,
had present the Apollo of the Villa of Medici,
which is now at Florence. The Cupid expresses
all the innocence of his age: the hair is rich and
wonderfully executed; it appears that one sees
the epidermis; and it is finished without appearing
dry. His little wings are like those of nestling
birds, who sill leave the sicin visible, and the
quills of the seathers. Whenever Correggio
painted wings, he attached them in the same
manner as in this painting, placing them imme-
diately behind the shoulders, in a manner that
they united so well with the desh, that they ef-
fectively appeared as a member united with the
superior part of the acromion ; from whence the
deceased Duke, who was the possessor of that
painting, was right in telling me that the wings
of that Cupid were so well situated, that if it were
possible that a child could be born with wing%
he could not have them in any other manner.
Generally other painters who make wings, afe