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RAPHAEL MENGS.
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always finds in his works a certain taste, but after
the manner of an embryo of the excellent things
done by celebrated men in the schools of Italy,
He never arrived to perfection in any thing;from
whence it arises that his style has not been able
to suffer any diminution without falling into the
mod ordinary styleof painting; it was formed
in that degree which he wished to follow. The
works of Lucas Giordano, are, generally speak-
ing,of two kinds, although he madethem various
by imitating one and another particular painter.
Some of his paintings are of a powersul colour,
imitating something Ribera, of whom he learnt
the profession in his sirst years, but his more ge-
neral style, and molt natural to his character,
which one observes in his belt works, is that which
he took from Peter of Cortona. After this style
is the superb work in sresco of the Casone del
Ritiro, and many other paintings in the pa-
lace; but in other works which he did at Ma-
drid, he fell oss somethingfrom that style, by mix-
ing dressed figures in his works, after the manne,
of Paolo Veronese, and, painting with more fee-
ble tints, and much clare obseure, with that he
sormed a style more heavy, asone may see in some
Llistories of Solomon, which are in that Palace,
done after he painted tire work os the Escuri^l.
Among other paintings of the same Palace,
there is one of a Madonna of half figure, with the
child and Saint John, which to some appears or
Raphael: in fact the child is almost all taken from
that author; the ssesh of the figures is rather red;
the field and the country incline to blue ; the robe
87
always finds in his works a certain taste, but after
the manner of an embryo of the excellent things
done by celebrated men in the schools of Italy,
He never arrived to perfection in any thing;from
whence it arises that his style has not been able
to suffer any diminution without falling into the
mod ordinary styleof painting; it was formed
in that degree which he wished to follow. The
works of Lucas Giordano, are, generally speak-
ing,of two kinds, although he madethem various
by imitating one and another particular painter.
Some of his paintings are of a powersul colour,
imitating something Ribera, of whom he learnt
the profession in his sirst years, but his more ge-
neral style, and molt natural to his character,
which one observes in his belt works, is that which
he took from Peter of Cortona. After this style
is the superb work in sresco of the Casone del
Ritiro, and many other paintings in the pa-
lace; but in other works which he did at Ma-
drid, he fell oss somethingfrom that style, by mix-
ing dressed figures in his works, after the manne,
of Paolo Veronese, and, painting with more fee-
ble tints, and much clare obseure, with that he
sormed a style more heavy, asone may see in some
Llistories of Solomon, which are in that Palace,
done after he painted tire work os the Escuri^l.
Among other paintings of the same Palace,
there is one of a Madonna of half figure, with the
child and Saint John, which to some appears or
Raphael: in fact the child is almost all taken from
that author; the ssesh of the figures is rather red;
the field and the country incline to blue ; the robe