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THE WORKS OF
Winkelman dedicated his book to the Arts,
to time, and to me. Time alone will ihow is
his work be usesul: I believe it will be useful,
and I think also that every one who reads his
hisrory to instrudt himself, and particularly
the article of the sirst book page 313. of the
translation, will find much profit from the
knowledge of Antiquity; and when also there
is found some passion for the Greeks, this same
passion will be useful, because the modern re-
storers have treated of all the good which they
have of that happy preoccupation; and whilst
this has remained in Italy the arts have been
Supported witli honor; and in France they
have fallen according as this has languished, and
where it has never penetrated the arts have
never made any progress.
When you will have persuaded the world that
Winkelman is an ignorant man, and that Cicero,
Pliny, Pausanius, Quintilian, and other ancient
authors knew not what they said on the sub-
je& os the arts, does it appear to you that we
Shall have gained much by that? The Laocoon,
the Gladiator, the Fauns, the Apollo, the Ve-
nus and many other statues will always sustain
the honor of the Grecians; nor can you your-
sels deny that beautiful proportion, ideal
beauty, facility of the posture, nobleness
and equalness of the style, knowledge of the
bones and muscles, solid expression, the soul
and vivacity os the characters, the drapery which
dresses but hides not the naked, and lastly the
execution which one admires in every place
THE WORKS OF
Winkelman dedicated his book to the Arts,
to time, and to me. Time alone will ihow is
his work be usesul: I believe it will be useful,
and I think also that every one who reads his
hisrory to instrudt himself, and particularly
the article of the sirst book page 313. of the
translation, will find much profit from the
knowledge of Antiquity; and when also there
is found some passion for the Greeks, this same
passion will be useful, because the modern re-
storers have treated of all the good which they
have of that happy preoccupation; and whilst
this has remained in Italy the arts have been
Supported witli honor; and in France they
have fallen according as this has languished, and
where it has never penetrated the arts have
never made any progress.
When you will have persuaded the world that
Winkelman is an ignorant man, and that Cicero,
Pliny, Pausanius, Quintilian, and other ancient
authors knew not what they said on the sub-
je& os the arts, does it appear to you that we
Shall have gained much by that? The Laocoon,
the Gladiator, the Fauns, the Apollo, the Ve-
nus and many other statues will always sustain
the honor of the Grecians; nor can you your-
sels deny that beautiful proportion, ideal
beauty, facility of the posture, nobleness
and equalness of the style, knowledge of the
bones and muscles, solid expression, the soul
and vivacity os the characters, the drapery which
dresses but hides not the naked, and lastly the
execution which one admires in every place