otograph of an alleged portrait

apel in the church of S. Prospero, Reggio. Agreement signed October 10, 1522. Stolen from the church May,

date, 1526-1528. In Hampton Court Ga

i family of Modena. After several transfers it came into the possession of Cardinal Mazarin, from whose heirs it was acquired for

in the Sala del Pergolata, Convent of S.

Augustine, St. Mark and St. Jerome. Frescoes in the chu

rame containing the picture is supposed to have been designed by Correggio himself. It bears the date 1530, when the picture was placed in the chu

ati, of Parma. In the seventeenth century there were three pictures of the subject in Italy claiming to be the original. Th

. John the Baptist. Frescoes in the C

d by Vasari as the property of the Ercolani family of Bologna. Passing from one owner to another, it was finally

a. Painted 1527-1528, according to Ricci. After the destruction of this church it was placed in the Cathedral for safet

gift for the Emperor Charles V. After passing through many hands it came in 1823 into the possession of the