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RAPHAEL MENGS.„
been, and that there are now elsewhere, schools
more reputable. One ought not, therefore,
to give as an example to youth the particu-
lar works of the artists of this academy, but one
ought to take the best works of every school, and
of all the most celebrated professors. In this
manner boys, from their most tender age, will
accustom themselves to a good style. Another
very great advantage will result from it, which
is, that the masters of the academy will be able
to speak with freedom, not being led away
by selflove or by human prejudices, which pre-
vent a man srom speaking frankly his Sentiments,
there where he speaks of his own work, or of
his associates, having themselves many reasons to
palliate their own opinions.
It would be also very convenient that pro-
sessors should give a good example in desining
and of modeling together with their scholars in
the modelling room, by this means animating
the youth and the prosessors themselves in the
inferior clades: this Rudy being mncli more
liseful to the advanced than to scholars. Above
all it would be necessary that one should ex-
amine with the greatest attention every thing
proposed to youth; not submitting to the
caprice of particulars the introductions of vicious
examples, since it is much more difficult to undo
a vice acquired in early years, than to learn a
thousand good things.
The time that is destined in the academy for
study is neither sufficient or proper, because
the hours of the night are few for a study so ex-
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been, and that there are now elsewhere, schools
more reputable. One ought not, therefore,
to give as an example to youth the particu-
lar works of the artists of this academy, but one
ought to take the best works of every school, and
of all the most celebrated professors. In this
manner boys, from their most tender age, will
accustom themselves to a good style. Another
very great advantage will result from it, which
is, that the masters of the academy will be able
to speak with freedom, not being led away
by selflove or by human prejudices, which pre-
vent a man srom speaking frankly his Sentiments,
there where he speaks of his own work, or of
his associates, having themselves many reasons to
palliate their own opinions.
It would be also very convenient that pro-
sessors should give a good example in desining
and of modeling together with their scholars in
the modelling room, by this means animating
the youth and the prosessors themselves in the
inferior clades: this Rudy being mncli more
liseful to the advanced than to scholars. Above
all it would be necessary that one should ex-
amine with the greatest attention every thing
proposed to youth; not submitting to the
caprice of particulars the introductions of vicious
examples, since it is much more difficult to undo
a vice acquired in early years, than to learn a
thousand good things.
The time that is destined in the academy for
study is neither sufficient or proper, because
the hours of the night are few for a study so ex-
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