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RAPHAEL MENGS.
6. The sharpness of the eyebrows is not
destrudtive of the lines, but rather is
used by the ancients to show their colour
which, if they are black, give a se-
verity, which by that ought to express
with the greatest acuteness, the angle of
the eye brow. In fact, in the head of
Jove, one observes the eyebrow constant-
ly acute, and in the Deity of slaxen hair,
one sees it softened. Is it were in style,
one Ihould find that character angulated
even in the mouth, nose, and'in all the
other parts, such as one observes in some
Tuscan or very ancient Grecian monu-
ments.
7. The good Winkelman was somewhat visiona-
ry ; a defeat excusable in antiquarians. I
have in chalk, the head os which he
speaks: the eyebrows do not discover
any particular disserence; nor has Pliny
ever said that there were two Niobes, one
of Scopa and the other os Praxiteles.
8. It appears to me, that the difference of the
forms between mothers and children,
consists more in the greater or lesser gen-
tility, than in the natural character of the
forms.
9. If one admits of very sweet harmony, one
shall destroy by that the austere style.
The austere can only be in the sublime
and at the most in the beautiful, but
never in the sweet or graceful style.
RAPHAEL MENGS.
6. The sharpness of the eyebrows is not
destrudtive of the lines, but rather is
used by the ancients to show their colour
which, if they are black, give a se-
verity, which by that ought to express
with the greatest acuteness, the angle of
the eye brow. In fact, in the head of
Jove, one observes the eyebrow constant-
ly acute, and in the Deity of slaxen hair,
one sees it softened. Is it were in style,
one Ihould find that character angulated
even in the mouth, nose, and'in all the
other parts, such as one observes in some
Tuscan or very ancient Grecian monu-
ments.
7. The good Winkelman was somewhat visiona-
ry ; a defeat excusable in antiquarians. I
have in chalk, the head os which he
speaks: the eyebrows do not discover
any particular disserence; nor has Pliny
ever said that there were two Niobes, one
of Scopa and the other os Praxiteles.
8. It appears to me, that the difference of the
forms between mothers and children,
consists more in the greater or lesser gen-
tility, than in the natural character of the
forms.
9. If one admits of very sweet harmony, one
shall destroy by that the austere style.
The austere can only be in the sublime
and at the most in the beautiful, but
never in the sweet or graceful style.