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and most perfect state, to those which time 

 has most defaced and mutilated. 



Many of the first great masters of the 

 -I'evived art, Leonardo da Vinci, M. Ange- 

 lo, Raphael, G. Romano, and others, were 

 architects as well as painters ; and several 

 buildings were executed after their designs, 

 and under their inspection. But I am now 

 considering architecture as it appears in 

 pictures, and mixed with other objects ; 

 and among these great artists Raphael is 

 tlie only one, who has left a number gf 

 historical compositions in which buildings 

 and architecture form so principal a part, as 

 may enable us to form, a judgment of the 

 f result of the whole. The general charac- 

 ter of his architecture, like that of liis 

 vfigures, is a sedate and simple grandeur, 

 equally- free from superfluous ornament, 

 and from stronslv marked contrasts : and 

 such is that of the painters of the Roman 

 and Florentine schools taken in a general 

 vie^y,and with the exceptions and modifica- 

 ti^i^s -\vhich in such views mustjoccur. 



