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THE WORKS OF
being deficient in the gradations, and ambient
air; although in the colouring he is more forci-
ble and brilliant, as the paintings of the Sopra-
portes plainly show.
Of Morillo, there are paintings in that cham-
ber of two different styles. The sirst are the In-
carnation,and the Nativity of Our Lord, which,
especially the second, are painted in a masterly
style, and with a force conformable to nature,
although they were done before he acquired
that sweetness which chara&erises his second
style, as one discovers in other paintings of that
chamber, and namely in the little one of the
marriage of the Virgin Mary, and in a most
beautiful half figure of Saint James, placed in
a contiguous anti-chamber.
In the conversation room of the King, there
is an excellent work of Velasquez which repre-
sents the Infanta Donna Margarita Maria of Au-
stria, when the aforesaid Velasquez drew her,
but that work being so famous for its excellence,
I will not say more than that it can convince
that the effect occasioned by the imitation of na-
ture, is that which serves to content every class os
people, above all, where one makes not the
principal account ofbeauty.
For the present, I will refrain from speaking
of the many excellent paintings of Titian, dis-
persed through every part os the palace, to say
something of the superb portrait of Velasquez,
in which he represented Philip IV. on horseback,
in an admirable style, as well sor the sigure of
the King, as the horse, and the field itielf, is
THE WORKS OF
being deficient in the gradations, and ambient
air; although in the colouring he is more forci-
ble and brilliant, as the paintings of the Sopra-
portes plainly show.
Of Morillo, there are paintings in that cham-
ber of two different styles. The sirst are the In-
carnation,and the Nativity of Our Lord, which,
especially the second, are painted in a masterly
style, and with a force conformable to nature,
although they were done before he acquired
that sweetness which chara&erises his second
style, as one discovers in other paintings of that
chamber, and namely in the little one of the
marriage of the Virgin Mary, and in a most
beautiful half figure of Saint James, placed in
a contiguous anti-chamber.
In the conversation room of the King, there
is an excellent work of Velasquez which repre-
sents the Infanta Donna Margarita Maria of Au-
stria, when the aforesaid Velasquez drew her,
but that work being so famous for its excellence,
I will not say more than that it can convince
that the effect occasioned by the imitation of na-
ture, is that which serves to content every class os
people, above all, where one makes not the
principal account ofbeauty.
For the present, I will refrain from speaking
of the many excellent paintings of Titian, dis-
persed through every part os the palace, to say
something of the superb portrait of Velasquez,
in which he represented Philip IV. on horseback,
in an admirable style, as well sor the sigure of
the King, as the horse, and the field itielf, is