a. [See -ESQUE.] Characteristic of, or in the style of, the Italian painter Correggio.
1760. Ann. Reg., 252. Among us, any action that is singularly graceful, is termed Correggiesque.
1801–15. Fuseli, Lect. Art, viii. (1848), 514. The far more than Correggiesque graces of female forms.
So † Correggiescity, Correggiosity, the characteristic style of Correggio.
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xii. 59–60. There is nothing of … the corregiescity of Corregio.
1848. Mrs. Jameson, Sacr. & Leg. Art (1850), 5. Of the grace of Raphael, and of the Correggiosity of Correggio.
