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Updated: February 15, 2026

In this respect Correggio might be termed the Rossini of painting. The melodies of the 'Stabat Mater' Fac ut portem or Quis est homo are the exact analogues in music of Correggio's voluptuous renderings of grave or mysterious motives.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series