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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1796 Original Publisher: R. Faudler Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PART THE SECOND. OF THE PARTS OF PAINTING, . AND OF THE PERFECTIONS AND DEFECTS OF RAPHAEL. I C H A P. - I. OF DESIGN. RAPHAEL began with a Deflgn dry and fervile, although fufficiently correct. He then learned a fuperior ftyle, yet never fo per- fe5t, and competent as that of the ancients of the firft degree, becaufe he had not on the whole that knowledge of true Beauty whici the Greeks porTefled. He was excellent in the characters of Philofophers, Apoftles, and in other figures of that kind. His women are not fufficiently graceful, and he fpoilt them by his convex turns, which render them in a certain manner trivial, and of a vulgar air; and when he wifhed to avoid that error, he fell into another, dill worfe, which was harfhnefs. He knew not Ideal Beauty, and for that reafon was more excellent in Apoftles and Phi- lofophers, than in the divine figures; that is to fay, 'his Defign comprehended all the contours which one finds in Nature, and which tie imitated in every thing he did. He fludied the Antique pricipally in Baf-reliefs; and acquired a tafte more Roman than Grecian. In his works one fees the moft minute tracks of the Arch ofTitusandofConftantius, with the baft- reliefs of that of Trajan. From thence he took the fyftem of marking principally the joints and bones, and of maintaining the contour of the flefh more fimple and eafy. The aforefaid Baf-reliefs are not of the beft tafte ofcantiquity; yet they are beautiful for the fymmetry, and the relation of one member Math another. By this ftudy Raphael underftood the propriety of characters, and the relation of
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The Works of Anthony Raphael; First Painter to His Catholic Majesty Charles Iii
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