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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I am at prefent confidering buildings and
architeblure in their relation to hiflory, not
to landfcape-painting; for in the fpecimens
of landfcape which Raphael has given us
in his back-grounds, he has in few inftances
completely overcome the drynefs of his
mafter, P. Perugino ; nor could he, in that
branch of the art, enlarge his ideas, from
any works of his great infpirer M. Angelo.
That branch, in which the moderns have
the beft claim to fuperiority over the an~
cients, was brought to its higheft perfeciion
in point of grandeur of ftyle, and richnefs
of colouring, by the artifts of the Venetian
fchool, and more particularly by their chief
boaft, the divine Titian. As far as I can
recolle6i, Titian has feldom, if ever, intro-
duced any ftnifhed pieces of architehiure,
into the near parts of his mere landfcapes ;
nor indeed any buildings as principal ob-
jehfs occupying a large part of the pihlure,
fuch as we fee in the landfcapes of fome other

painters,