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tion what has occurred to me on the sub- 

 ject. 



I went to Venice from Rome, full of 

 Raphael and the Vatican, and of the works 

 of many great masters of the other schools, 

 that are collected in that capital of the 

 arts. In most of them, buildings and ar- 

 chitecture of the highest kind are intro- 

 duced ; yet those of the Venetian painters, 

 had a ii,ew and a very forcible effect upon 

 my mind, and, as far as I can recollect, I 

 passed the same judgment upon them that 

 I do now: but I was not then in the same 

 habit of reflecting on my own ideas and 

 impressions. If then the architecture of 

 tliat school has a striking effect, and one of 

 a different kind from those of the other 

 schools, it is worth while to endeavour, at 

 least, to investigate the principles on which 

 they proceeded ; and to observe whether 

 those principles are constant and uniform. 

 Such inquiries will not be useful to the 

 painter only, but in many cases to the ar- 

 chitect ; for whatever in any way relates 



