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)

52 THE WORKS OF
force, which one does not find either in the
Bacchus's, Venus's, or Apollo's, which the an-
cients have represented of flaxen hair.
I contess that my feeble talents do not arrive
to dilsinguissi the disserent kinds of grace, al-
though I know that beauty and grace are things
very different : nevertheless I understand how
they, place in sculpture the contours called fore-
shortening. But the force of these expressions
tyll depend upon the idiom of the Italian lan-
guage, which I do not possess as I could wish.
Be it as it may, I call in my style the designs of
Raphael beautiful, &©.,,,..