12 PORDENONE The subject of this (Giovanni Antonio de' Sacchis) extraordinarily powerful Italian, 1483/84-1539 drawing is the gruesome Martyrdom of Saint Peter Martyr death of Saint Peter Martyr, a Red chalk thirteenth-century Dominican 24.4 x 20.7 cm (9 x 8 in.) Cat. II, no. 36; 87.GB.91 saint renowned for the officious zeal with which he pursued heretics. He was murdered by assassins hired by two Venetian noblemen whom he had caused to be imprisoned by the Inquisition. The study is connected with Pordenone's finished compositional drawing of the subject in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 1526-28, which demonstrates that he, along with Palma Vecchio, competed with Titian for the commission to paint an altarpiece of the Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr for the Venetian Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo. Titian was awarded the contract. His picture, completed in 1530, perished in a fire in 1867. 13 CORREGGIO This is a modello (finished sketch) for the (Antonio Allegri) medallion, supported to each side by Italian, 1489/94-1534 two pairs of standing nude putti Christ in Glory (child angels), in the center of Red chalk, brown and gray wash, the underside of the entrance heightened with white bodycolor arch to the del Bono Chapel in (partly oxidized), lightly squared in red chalk, on a pink ground; the Church of San Giovanni circle inscribed in brown ink Evangelista, Parma; the execution 14.6 x 14.6 cm (5¾ x 5¾ in.) Cat. II, no. 15; 87.GB.90 of the decoration is generally dated 1520-23. Correggio had previously painted his famous decoration of the cupola and pendentives of the crossing in 1 520—21. Correggio, the leading Renaissance painter of the school of Parma, was renowned for the gracefulness and sensuousness of his figures. He adopted Leonardo's sfumato (muted) effects and was influenced by Michelangelo. In the present drawing, something of the "softness" of Correggio's paintings is conveyed by the creamy treatment of light. The attractive range of pinks that results from the combination of red chalk and white heightening is also characteristic of the pictorialism of Correggios draftsmanship. 20 ITALIAN SCHOOL