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RAPHAEL MENGS.
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of twenty two palms and an hals, the most of a
Colossos that any of the moderns ever under-
took. ,
Pope Julius the second, determined to erest
a magnificent Mausoleum, for which he called
Michael Angelo to Rome, and in the mean
time that he was considering where to place
it, he made him paint the ceiling of the Chapel
of Sixtus the fourth. This great work was a vast
sield, and proportioned to the talents of that
artist, who, at the age of thirty years only, knew
how to encrease the fire of his genius instead os
dissipating it.
Effectively in that Chapel, painted at differ-
ent times, although consecutively, one sees that
he improved his style, and without an oc-
casion like this he would never have arrived to
that degree which he did ; because he there dis-
covered greatness in the whole, exadtness in
the contours, knowledge in the form, great re-
lief, and sufficient variety; of which they had
not then a just idea.
In the time of the same Pontificate Raphael
was called to Rome to paint the Vatican Hall.
This sublime genius began the undertaking of
these spacious walls, and before he finished the
first painting he enlarged his slyle,
He began the second, which was that of Phi-
losophy, called the School of Athens, with the
ideas and maxims which he had terminated the
first, and he carried painting substantially to the
highest degree in which it has been seen since
the time of the Greeks. All those parts which
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of twenty two palms and an hals, the most of a
Colossos that any of the moderns ever under-
took. ,
Pope Julius the second, determined to erest
a magnificent Mausoleum, for which he called
Michael Angelo to Rome, and in the mean
time that he was considering where to place
it, he made him paint the ceiling of the Chapel
of Sixtus the fourth. This great work was a vast
sield, and proportioned to the talents of that
artist, who, at the age of thirty years only, knew
how to encrease the fire of his genius instead os
dissipating it.
Effectively in that Chapel, painted at differ-
ent times, although consecutively, one sees that
he improved his style, and without an oc-
casion like this he would never have arrived to
that degree which he did ; because he there dis-
covered greatness in the whole, exadtness in
the contours, knowledge in the form, great re-
lief, and sufficient variety; of which they had
not then a just idea.
In the time of the same Pontificate Raphael
was called to Rome to paint the Vatican Hall.
This sublime genius began the undertaking of
these spacious walls, and before he finished the
first painting he enlarged his slyle,
He began the second, which was that of Phi-
losophy, called the School of Athens, with the
ideas and maxims which he had terminated the
first, and he carried painting substantially to the
highest degree in which it has been seen since
the time of the Greeks. All those parts which