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The character of the architecture in the 

 picturesof the Venetian masters, takenin the 

 same general manner, is a gay and splen- 

 did magnificence. Such characters will of 

 course vary in each school according to the 

 disposition of the particular master; and I 

 think in most instances it may be observed, 

 that the style of the buildings is in unison 

 with that of the figures. Titian, in whose 

 figures and general conceptions, there is of- 

 ten a simplicity unknown to his two coun- 

 trymen and contemporaries, Paul Veronese 

 and Tintoret, has the same comparative 

 simplicity in his architecture; still, however, 

 .it is of a very different cast from that of 

 either of the schools I have mentioned. 

 Tintoret is less dignified in his pictures than 

 either Titian or Paul ; and, as far as I have 

 iiad an opportunity of observing it, the 

 same may be said of his architecture. No 

 painter whose subjects were serious, ever 

 placed the human figure so much, and so 

 frequently out of the perpendicular : it is 

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