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same management in their writings as I am recommending to the
painters: it was the poets proper business so to do) one can hardly
believe them to be altogether such as we see in the antique statues,
bas-reliefs, medals, and intaglios. And thus the belt modern
painters, and sculptors have done. Michelangelo no where saw
such living figures as he cut in done; and Rafaelle thus writes to
his friend the Count Baldaffar CaJbglione, Ma effendo careflia e de i
buoni giudicii, et di belle donne, io mi fe?vo di certa idea che mi viene
alia mente. The letter is in Bellori's description of the pictures
in the Vatican, and in the collection of letters I have cited here-
tofore.
When a man enters into that awful gallery at Hampton-Court,
he finds himself amongst a sort of people superior to what he has
ever seen, and very probably to what those really were. Indeed
this is the principal excellence of those wonderful pictures, as it
must be allowed to be that part of Painting, which is preferable to
all others.
What a grace, and majesty is seen in the great aposile of the
gentiles, in all his aCtions, preaching, rending his garments,
denouncing vengeance upon the sorcerer! what a dignity is in the
other apostles wherever they appear, particularly the prince of
them in the carton of the death of Ananias! how infinitely, and
divinely great, and genteel is the Christ in the boat! but these are
exalted characters which have a delicacy in them as much beyond
what any of the gods, demi-gods, or heroes of the ancient heathens
can admit of, as the christian religion excels the ancient supen'tition.
The proconsul Sergius Paulus has a greatne ss, and grace superior
to his character, and equal to what one can suppose Caesar, Augus-
tus, Trajan, or the greatest among the Romans to have had. The
common people are like gentlemen; even the fishermen, the beg-
gars, have something in them much above what we see in those
orders of men.
And