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RAPHAEL MENGS. 152
Finally the Florentines, by means of Orcagna,
began to abandon that deformed style, and Bru-
nelleschi was the sirst who reduced the minds of
the Italians to the taste of Grecian Archie
tenure. Bramante and San-Gallo approached
it a little more, andfrom their examples many
others dedicated themselves to study a good style.
Also Michael Angelo applied himself to that
Grecian style; but finding it perhaps too steril
for his fiery and fertile genius, he began and en-
ded with the most ardent and intrepid ideas.
The grandeur of the building of said Peter gave
opportunities to those fervent talents to banish
and place in entire forgetfulness, the ideas of the
German style.
San-Micheli, San-Sovino, Palladio, and Scam-
ozzi adorned the state of Venice, and all these
united together to diffuse by their buildings,
good taste throughout Italy; as also by their
books which they published, especially Palladio,
Scamozzi, Serlio, and Vignola.
' Is architecture had been able to maintain it-
self in that date which those great masters had
established, it would not have been so little for-
tunate; but the love of novelty and the ambiti-
on of the artists, in wishing to be all inventors,
made them soon give into a thousand extrava-
gancies and disproportions; and in place of rea-
soning upon the ideas os the first men who had
raised the arts from barbarity,they loaded mem-
bers upon members, interrupting the most
essential, foolishly inventing minute and redi-
culous contours, and losing sight of the good cha-
VOL. II,
X
Finally the Florentines, by means of Orcagna,
began to abandon that deformed style, and Bru-
nelleschi was the sirst who reduced the minds of
the Italians to the taste of Grecian Archie
tenure. Bramante and San-Gallo approached
it a little more, andfrom their examples many
others dedicated themselves to study a good style.
Also Michael Angelo applied himself to that
Grecian style; but finding it perhaps too steril
for his fiery and fertile genius, he began and en-
ded with the most ardent and intrepid ideas.
The grandeur of the building of said Peter gave
opportunities to those fervent talents to banish
and place in entire forgetfulness, the ideas of the
German style.
San-Micheli, San-Sovino, Palladio, and Scam-
ozzi adorned the state of Venice, and all these
united together to diffuse by their buildings,
good taste throughout Italy; as also by their
books which they published, especially Palladio,
Scamozzi, Serlio, and Vignola.
' Is architecture had been able to maintain it-
self in that date which those great masters had
established, it would not have been so little for-
tunate; but the love of novelty and the ambiti-
on of the artists, in wishing to be all inventors,
made them soon give into a thousand extrava-
gancies and disproportions; and in place of rea-
soning upon the ideas os the first men who had
raised the arts from barbarity,they loaded mem-
bers upon members, interrupting the most
essential, foolishly inventing minute and redi-
culous contours, and losing sight of the good cha-
VOL. II,
X