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THE WORKS OF
1. It would be a missortune, if the excellency
of the arts depended upon liberty incompa-
tible with our times ; from whence this
thought would discourage princes in pro-
tecting them, and the artists in executing
them.
2, It appears to me, that painters and sculptors
of the first epoch sought not grace, but
solely the imitation of truth, and succes-
sively beauty, which always excludes all
rigor ; and by as much as we can know of
the sew ancient paintings which remain,
their style was more soft, their clare ob-
scure more sweet, and their contours more
simple and less intricate than in the modern
painting; the same may be said of the
grandeur and elegance of their sculp-
ture.
3. I never can comprehend how grace can be
called austere, being two qualities dire&ly
opposite.
4. I believe Praxiteles and Apelles did not
change so much the forms as the style,
expressing aster the most easy manner the
outlines os beauty.
5. I do not comprehend, how there can be
more than one grace in the art. The de-
signs of Raphael, Leonard, and Sarto,
merit the name of beautiful ; as also those
of Guido, and os Albano: those of Cor-
reggio are gracesul, and those of Parmigi-
anino are asfected and studied.
THE WORKS OF
1. It would be a missortune, if the excellency
of the arts depended upon liberty incompa-
tible with our times ; from whence this
thought would discourage princes in pro-
tecting them, and the artists in executing
them.
2, It appears to me, that painters and sculptors
of the first epoch sought not grace, but
solely the imitation of truth, and succes-
sively beauty, which always excludes all
rigor ; and by as much as we can know of
the sew ancient paintings which remain,
their style was more soft, their clare ob-
scure more sweet, and their contours more
simple and less intricate than in the modern
painting; the same may be said of the
grandeur and elegance of their sculp-
ture.
3. I never can comprehend how grace can be
called austere, being two qualities dire&ly
opposite.
4. I believe Praxiteles and Apelles did not
change so much the forms as the style,
expressing aster the most easy manner the
outlines os beauty.
5. I do not comprehend, how there can be
more than one grace in the art. The de-
signs of Raphael, Leonard, and Sarto,
merit the name of beautiful ; as also those
of Guido, and os Albano: those of Cor-
reggio are gracesul, and those of Parmigi-
anino are asfected and studied.