DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.73713#0030
26
THE WORKS OF
bolical praises on his compatriot. His style is as it
happens to be with every one who would with
to praise a friend; neither ought his expressions
to be interpreted literally, because (I believe)
nor less should yourself be taken rigorously
when in praising your fellow citizen Mr. Puget
you speak of seeing the blood run within the
veins of his statue os marble. I do not pretend to
justify every thing which Winkelman says, since
it would be unjust to support all the weakness's
of a friend; and equally so, not to speak in his
defence when there is reason. Winckelman is
not an infallible judge, nor was he of our pro-
fcssion, and although he had been as us, are
we secure os always judging right? Is we had
this great priviledge, our productions would be
perfect, because it is not the occasion which is
wanting to us, but the judgement; it happening
to us daily to produce works which we ourselves
are the first to condemn.
That which Winkelman says os the head of
of the Horse of Marcus Aurelius, perhaps will
be ill sounded according to the idea which we
now have of the beauty of that animal, but I
pray you to consider that in no ancient monu-
ment is to found the head of a Horse like that
os a Ram, which appears to us so beautiful, and
which in Spain they call Cabezas de Carne-
ros. By that I am not far from believing that
the ancients held as most beautiful, the head of
a horse which resembles that of an ox, as was
that os the famous Bucephalus of Alexander.
Winkelman wrote some things before he knew
THE WORKS OF
bolical praises on his compatriot. His style is as it
happens to be with every one who would with
to praise a friend; neither ought his expressions
to be interpreted literally, because (I believe)
nor less should yourself be taken rigorously
when in praising your fellow citizen Mr. Puget
you speak of seeing the blood run within the
veins of his statue os marble. I do not pretend to
justify every thing which Winkelman says, since
it would be unjust to support all the weakness's
of a friend; and equally so, not to speak in his
defence when there is reason. Winckelman is
not an infallible judge, nor was he of our pro-
fcssion, and although he had been as us, are
we secure os always judging right? Is we had
this great priviledge, our productions would be
perfect, because it is not the occasion which is
wanting to us, but the judgement; it happening
to us daily to produce works which we ourselves
are the first to condemn.
That which Winkelman says os the head of
of the Horse of Marcus Aurelius, perhaps will
be ill sounded according to the idea which we
now have of the beauty of that animal, but I
pray you to consider that in no ancient monu-
ment is to found the head of a Horse like that
os a Ram, which appears to us so beautiful, and
which in Spain they call Cabezas de Carne-
ros. By that I am not far from believing that
the ancients held as most beautiful, the head of
a horse which resembles that of an ox, as was
that os the famous Bucephalus of Alexander.
Winkelman wrote some things before he knew