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

188 I 'THE WORKS OF

PART THE FOURTH.

C II A P. I.

OF THE TASTE OF TITIAN.
TITIAN began to study painting in the
School of Giovanni, and of Gentil Bellino;
but one finds no work of his done after that
taste ; from whence I believe that he applied
himself to copy only some paintings of those
professors to make his studies apart. Also Gior-
gione was at the same school; but surpassed
his matters quicker than Titian did, because it
appears to me that his talent was much the same
as that of Correggio, and he found by the same
way a beautiful clare obscure, and a taste more
raised and powerful than that of Bellini. Titian
seeing that, abandoned his masters, and put him-
self to study with Giorgione, taking from him
force, sweetness, and rotundity; but generally
speaking he could not equal him in the gran-
deur of Taste. Yet notwithstanding, in the Ves^