Excerpt from The Arts and Artists, Vol. 2: Or Anecdotes and Relics of the Schools of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture<br><br>For the work; and with the consent of his father, Pellegrino, he entered into an agreement, for the purpose, on the 3oth of August, 1514. The price stipulated was one hundred ducats, of which fifty were paid 1n advance, exclusive of the wood, which was provided by the community, at the expense of twenty-two ducats more. Ten ducats were also assigned for leaf gold, besides the chmge for erecting the scaffolding and other preparations. This sum, as his recent biographers justly argue, indicates no ordinary degree of reputation, and completely refutes the idle assertions of Vasari and his super ficial copyist, that Correggio was ill paid for his works; since such a recompenceg according to the 'comparative value of money, would be deemed a liberal reward, for so young an artist, even at the present day. This altar-piece represented the Virgin, support q'n'g the infant Saviour in her lap, with St. Joseph on one side,-and on the other St. Fhucis, kneel ing. The height was two buccia, and the breadth, one and two thirds, or nearly five feet by four. The painting remained 1n its place mtil August, 1638, 'when it was stolen, and an inferior performance substituted, as was supposed, by a Spanish painter.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.