was buried with solemnities worthy of his great endowments, in the church of San Francesco, at the foot of the altar in the chapel of the Arrivabene.
ANNIBALE CARACCI'S OPINION OF CORREGGIO'S
GRAND CUPOLA AT PARMA.
"I went," says Annibale Caracci, in a letter to
his cousin Lodovico, "to see the grand cupola,
which you have so often commended to me, and am
quite astonished. To observe so large a composition,
so well contrived; and seen from below with
such great exactness; and at the same time, such
judgment, such grace, and coloring of real flesh,
good God, not Tibaldi, not Nicolini, nor even I may
say, Raffaelle himself, can be compared with him.
I know not how many paintings I have seen this
morning; the Ancona, or altar-piece of St. John,
and St. Catharine, and the Madonna della Scodella
going to Egypt, and I swear, I would change none
of these for the St. Cecilia. To speak of the graces
of this St. Catharine, who so gracefully lays her
head on the feet of the beautiful little Savior; is
she not more lovely than the St. Mary Magdalen?
That fine old man St. Jerome, is he not grander,
and at the same time more tender than that St.
Paul, which first appeared to me a miracle, and now
seems like a piece of wood, it is so hard and sharp.
However you must have patience even for your own
Parmiggiano, because I now acknowledge that I have
learnt from this great man, to imitate all his grace,
