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Mengs, Anton Raphael; Nibiano, José Nicolás de Azara de [Editor]; Mengs, Anton Raphael [Contr.]
The works of Anthony Raphael Mengs: first painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles III. (Band 2) — London: Faulder, 1796

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THE WORKS OF

to whom, perhaps, in lively expression one
may Tay some of the moderns are supe-
rior.
17. It appears that we do great injustice to Leo-
nardo, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Andrew
del Sarto, Titian, Correggio, Paolo, and to
many others, when we would wissi to
ascribe the revival of painting to the Car-
racci's, and perhaps only to favour the
Niobe; nevertheless the profile os the
slioulders of the woman of the transfigura-
tion, the other near to the lunatic, and
many others of Raphael, resemble much
more the Niobes then the heads of the same
Guido.
 
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