Leigh Harrison Hunt

“ Correggio is the most skillful artist since the ancient Greeks in the art of foreshortening; and, indeed, he was master of every technical device in painting, being the first to introduce the rules of aerial perspective. Radiant light floods his pictures and is so delicately graded that it passes subtly into shade with that play of reflections among the shadows which gave transparency in every modulation. ”

“ Director Julius Meyer has already pronounced this picture spurious" [cf. "Italian Masters in German Galleries" (London, 1833) , 129–136] . The "Virgin Adoring the Infant Christ" (Uffizi) is an exquisite poem of motherhood, full of all that is tender and sweet in human sentiment. ”

“ Other celebrated masterpieces are "The marriage of Saint Catherine" (Louvre) ; "Madonna in Glory" (Munich) ; "Danae" (Rome) ; "Madonna 'del Latte'" (St. Petersburg) ; "Ecce Homo", "Madonna della Cesta", and "Vierge au Panier" (National Gallery) ”