Price, Uvedale: Essays 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 2) (Hereford, 1798)

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from buildings in their moft pieiurefque
ftate, (that is, where the variety of forms,
tints, and enects, are moft fudden ancl ftrik-
ing,) thofe painters who were fond of fuch
varieties and of all that is termed pictu-
refque, have fought for them by means not
incompatible, with whatis clue to the dignity
and propriety of the hiftorical ftyle. This
will clearly appear to any perfon, who com-
pares the architecfural back-grounds of fuch
artifts, with thofe of other mafters who
ftudied the higher parts of the art; as for
inftance, the back-grounds of Raphael and
Pouflln, with thofe of P. Veronefe and
Rubens. In the works of the tvvo laft men-
tioned painters, thofe artifices, and that pic-
turefque difpofition I mentioned, appear in
all their.briiliancy; and are perfecfty fuited
to w rhat has very properly been termed the
ornamental ftyle, as oppofed to the feverer
charadler of the Roman and Florentirie
fchools.

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