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RAPHAEL MENGS. 61
are generally occasioned by the effects of violent
affections.
Among the moderns no one has known how
to give such taste to expression as Raphael; who
appears as is he had drawn the persons them-
selves which he represented. Others, also of the
greatest ability, appear as if they had drawn
Comedians, who feign the passions they re^
present, and who represent the actions for the spec-
tators, and not because they felt the effects
themselves; so that it is an affectation, and not
the internal sentiment of the person. Some
professors of merit have shown grace only by
some particular actions, andothers not even this
part, having made all their compositions cold,
and inanimate. Raphael to the contrary is ex-
pressive in all cases, and his execution corresponds
in all the parts his style requires, as I shall ex-
plain in the description os his paintings.
Natural Style.
Although painting ought to give an idea of
natural things, I distinguihi however under that
term of natural style, those woks in which Ar-
tisis propose no other end but the same, with-
out choosing or improving the most exquisite of
nature itself, and that is understood when one
speaks of Naturalists in painting; which deno-
mination lignifies that such artists have not
known the art of improving their originals, or of
choosing the belt os Nature; contenting them-
are generally occasioned by the effects of violent
affections.
Among the moderns no one has known how
to give such taste to expression as Raphael; who
appears as is he had drawn the persons them-
selves which he represented. Others, also of the
greatest ability, appear as if they had drawn
Comedians, who feign the passions they re^
present, and who represent the actions for the spec-
tators, and not because they felt the effects
themselves; so that it is an affectation, and not
the internal sentiment of the person. Some
professors of merit have shown grace only by
some particular actions, andothers not even this
part, having made all their compositions cold,
and inanimate. Raphael to the contrary is ex-
pressive in all cases, and his execution corresponds
in all the parts his style requires, as I shall ex-
plain in the description os his paintings.
Natural Style.
Although painting ought to give an idea of
natural things, I distinguihi however under that
term of natural style, those woks in which Ar-
tisis propose no other end but the same, with-
out choosing or improving the most exquisite of
nature itself, and that is understood when one
speaks of Naturalists in painting; which deno-
mination lignifies that such artists have not
known the art of improving their originals, or of
choosing the belt os Nature; contenting them-