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Mengs, Anton Raphael; Nibiano, José Nicolás de Azara de [Editor]; Mengs, Anton Raphael [Contr.]
The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs: first painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles III. (Band 1) — London: Faulder, 1796

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14$ THE WORKS OF
more in a mass; and notwithstanding he was a
great master, he was newly reduced to become a
disciple to perfection. His painting of the
Transfiguration is a clear proof that he had ac-
quired the highest idea of true beauty; since
that work contains even more of it than all
his anterior ones. The expression is there more
'noble and delicate; the clare obscure is better;
the degradation is better understood, and lastly,
the strokes are more fine and admirable, since
one finds not any lines, or contours as in his an-
tecedent works.
 
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