188 Report of the Latours of 
of the French government at the Academy of Rome are divided 
into two classes. 
The one comprehends studies of the details wha during the 
first three years of their residence they ought to furnish, in or- 
det to show how they had been employing their time, and the 
progress which they are making in the study of the art; works 
the property of which remains with the author. 
The other description of labours consists in the restoration of 
ancient monuments, which the pupils ought to undertake during 
their residence, and present in a finished state at the expiration 
of their term. These restorations, which we may regard as the 
completion of their education, appertain to government. 
Your commission has followed the order of this division, in the 
examination which you have direeted them to make of the works 
sent from Rome this year. Their report will embrace, first; the 
analysis of the studies of annual details; and secondly, that of 
the restoration of antique monuments, 
M. Suys, one of your pupils, has extended his researches over 
the three orders of architecture. 
In order to study the Dorie and Ionic orders, he has judi- 
ciously chosen those of the theatre of Marcellus, as the most 
correct of the edifices of ancient Rome, and even of Italy. Of 
-the three drawings which he has made, one traces the whole 
of the two orders raised ou each other, with the arcades made 
in the. intercolumniations: the two other drawings, the details 
of each of these orders; 7. e. its base, capital, and entablature. 
As to the Corinthian erder—among the excellent models con- 
tained in ancient Rome, M. Suys gives. the preference to that 
of the temple of Mars the Avenger, which, better than any other 
perhaps, demonstrates how, by adding boldness to grace, the — 
genius of the ancients knew how to impress character on front | 
elevations the most elegant and rich. 
Of the four drawings which he has given of this monument, 
the first gives the plan and general elevation, taken from ‘the — 
work of Labacco, and which he has borrowed. The other three 
drawings present the elevation of two of the three intercolumni- 
ations which are still standing, and the working details of the 
base, capital, architrave, and rich ceiling which cevers the por- 
tico. 
M. Suys deserves no less praise for the care whieh he has 
taken to point out throughout the nature of the materials, and 
their fine execution, than for the skill with which he has given 
the character of the precious ornaments with which this order is 
tanichedt By following this course M. Suys may expect suCr 
ess at every step of his career. 
it is certainly surprising that Desgodetz, so careful in general 
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