Price, Uvedale; Price, Uvedale [Oth.]: An Essay On The Picturesque: As Compared With The Sublime And The Beautiful; And, On The Use Of Studying Pictures, For The Purpose Of Improving Real Landscape (Band 1) (London, 1796)

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of Mola, or that lefs attradl the notice o.f
a perfon unufed to painting. Salvator has
a favage grandeur, often in the higheft de«
gree fublime; and fublimity, in any fhape,
will command attention $ but Mola's
fcenes and figures, for the moft part, are
neither fublime nor beautiful; they are
purely pi(fturefque ; his touch is lefs
rough than Salvator’s; his colouring has,
in general, more richnefs and variety j and
his pidtures feem to me the moffc perfed:
examples of the higher ftile of pi&urefque-
nefs: infinitely removed from vulgar na-
ture, but having neither the foftnefs and
delicacy of beauty, nor that grandeur of
conception which produces the fublime.

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