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RAPHAEL MENGS.
77
positions. In spight of all that, he 'did not dare
to dilate his compositions as his successors have
pradtised.
Towards the end of the 14th century were
born some men of superior talents, such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Giorgi-
one, Titian, Father Bartholemy of saint Mark,
and Raphael. Leonard found much subtilty;
Michael Angelo with the study of the ancient
fragments, and with the Knowledge of anatomy
enlarged the style of design, with the forms.
Giorgione of Castlefranco enlarged it also in ge-
neral, and in particular gave to colouring the
greatest vivacity, which his predecessors had
not done: Titian with a more subtile imitation of
nature, found perfection in the tones of colour-
ing. Father Bartholemy, making drapery his
particular study, found the mode of dressing well
the sigures, following the relies of the naked by
means of clare obscure. Raphael, endowed with
a more natural, and determinate talent for pain-
ting, studied his predecessors and contemporaries,
and appropriating the most excellent of all, ac-
cording to the conveniency of expressing the
truth of nature, he formed a style the molt per-
fect and universal of all the modern painters who
have been before or after him; and if he were
excellent in all the parts of the art, he was in-
comparably more so in composition and inven-
tion; and I believe it would have surprised the
Grecians themselves if they had seen the great
Works of the Vatican, where unite abundance.
77
positions. In spight of all that, he 'did not dare
to dilate his compositions as his successors have
pradtised.
Towards the end of the 14th century were
born some men of superior talents, such as
Leonardo da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Giorgi-
one, Titian, Father Bartholemy of saint Mark,
and Raphael. Leonard found much subtilty;
Michael Angelo with the study of the ancient
fragments, and with the Knowledge of anatomy
enlarged the style of design, with the forms.
Giorgione of Castlefranco enlarged it also in ge-
neral, and in particular gave to colouring the
greatest vivacity, which his predecessors had
not done: Titian with a more subtile imitation of
nature, found perfection in the tones of colour-
ing. Father Bartholemy, making drapery his
particular study, found the mode of dressing well
the sigures, following the relies of the naked by
means of clare obscure. Raphael, endowed with
a more natural, and determinate talent for pain-
ting, studied his predecessors and contemporaries,
and appropriating the most excellent of all, ac-
cording to the conveniency of expressing the
truth of nature, he formed a style the molt per-
fect and universal of all the modern painters who
have been before or after him; and if he were
excellent in all the parts of the art, he was in-
comparably more so in composition and inven-
tion; and I believe it would have surprised the
Grecians themselves if they had seen the great
Works of the Vatican, where unite abundance.