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ground; perfedl arcliiteckire continually:
wluch feems to imply, that in his opinion
what was broken and abrupt, fliould not, in
fuch fcenes as he reprefented, be brought
too near the eye, but kept at fuch a diftance,
that the whole might in a great degree
be blended together. This leads me to
another confideration, namely, that as al-
moft all the pidhires of Claude, are Morn-
ings and Evenings of the mildeft kind,
the lights and fhadows are fuch as take
off from all harfhnefs, and give to every
thing an air of foftnefs and repofe ; both
of them qualities very different from thofe
of the piblurefque, which demands fudden
lights, and deep fhadow rs.
It is not a little remarkable, that of the two
mofl celebrated of mere landfcape painters,
Gafpar, and Claude, the one wTo painted wild,
broken, pidlurefque nature, fhouldhave hardly
any of thofe buildings which are allowed to be
mofl
ground; perfedl arcliiteckire continually:
wluch feems to imply, that in his opinion
what was broken and abrupt, fliould not, in
fuch fcenes as he reprefented, be brought
too near the eye, but kept at fuch a diftance,
that the whole might in a great degree
be blended together. This leads me to
another confideration, namely, that as al-
moft all the pidhires of Claude, are Morn-
ings and Evenings of the mildeft kind,
the lights and fhadows are fuch as take
off from all harfhnefs, and give to every
thing an air of foftnefs and repofe ; both
of them qualities very different from thofe
of the piblurefque, which demands fudden
lights, and deep fhadow rs.
It is not a little remarkable, that of the two
mofl celebrated of mere landfcape painters,
Gafpar, and Claude, the one wTo painted wild,
broken, pidlurefque nature, fhouldhave hardly
any of thofe buildings which are allowed to be
mofl