The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 2) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1808)

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT.
the naivete, which reigns no less in the execution, than
in the idea. Cigoli did not possess, in an eminent de-
gree, a knowledge of aerial perspective. This is per-
ceptible in the manner in which the back ground of the
picture advances, although the distant objects are
touched with considerable judgment.