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Artists will here have an opportunity of seeing how
very justly Winkelman has observed, that the first grand
style of the Arts was founded on a system which consi-
ned of rules borrowed from nature only ; afterwards Ar-
tists having plunged beyond measure into the ideal aban-
doned truth in their forms and worked more after the
adopted system than after Nature of which they ought
never to have lost sight , for Art had by that means for-
med for it self a particular nature of it's own , which I
beleive , upon a stri6t examination , will be found , but
too much the case in the present Age. Many of these
Vases seem to have been painted in the time , when the
grand style of the Arts existed , and the natural grace in
the a6tions, and movement of the figures on them , is
truly admirable alth'o there are but few, even among the
Artists, that are sensible of such perfection in these Vases.
True Grace the companion of the Gods, says Pausanias,
must be sought for , and makes no advances, too eleva-
ted to communicate it self much to the senses, she speaks
to the mind alone. The Supreme, says Plato, has no Ima-
ge, xhe converses only with the wise, with the vulgar xhe
shews himself proud, and forbidding *, always equall xhe re-
prelses the emotions of the soul, xhe wraps himself up in
the delicious calm of that Divine Nature, of which the
Great Matters in the Arts according to ancient writers en-
deavour'd to sieze the type.
, . , . . Exemplaria Gmca
NoSurm verjate manu, verfate diurna.
Hor.
Artists will here have an opportunity of seeing how
very justly Winkelman has observed, that the first grand
style of the Arts was founded on a system which consi-
ned of rules borrowed from nature only ; afterwards Ar-
tists having plunged beyond measure into the ideal aban-
doned truth in their forms and worked more after the
adopted system than after Nature of which they ought
never to have lost sight , for Art had by that means for-
med for it self a particular nature of it's own , which I
beleive , upon a stri6t examination , will be found , but
too much the case in the present Age. Many of these
Vases seem to have been painted in the time , when the
grand style of the Arts existed , and the natural grace in
the a6tions, and movement of the figures on them , is
truly admirable alth'o there are but few, even among the
Artists, that are sensible of such perfection in these Vases.
True Grace the companion of the Gods, says Pausanias,
must be sought for , and makes no advances, too eleva-
ted to communicate it self much to the senses, she speaks
to the mind alone. The Supreme, says Plato, has no Ima-
ge, xhe converses only with the wise, with the vulgar xhe
shews himself proud, and forbidding *, always equall xhe re-
prelses the emotions of the soul, xhe wraps himself up in
the delicious calm of that Divine Nature, of which the
Great Matters in the Arts according to ancient writers en-
deavour'd to sieze the type.
, . , . . Exemplaria Gmca
NoSurm verjate manu, verfate diurna.
Hor.