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and shadow, which he had made choice of 

 in the school of Athens, the miracle of Bol- 

 senna, and the Heliodorus, he had displa^^ed 

 in those pictures the blaze of daylight, and 

 all the splendid decorations of P. Veronese. 

 All I aimed at w^as to point out, as far as I 

 am capable, what are the principles of light- 

 ness, airiness, and splendour in buildings, 

 and in what instances the}' may be com- 

 patible with grandeur. 



TheCaracci, in their historical paintings, 

 endeavoured to blend all that in various 

 \vays was most worthy of imitation, in the 

 great masters who preceded them. Among 

 so many men of original conceptions, and 

 whose originality, instead of being checked 

 or perverted, was fostered and guided by 

 the liberal method of instruction in that 

 famous academy, much variety of charac- 

 ter, in every part of their productions, will 

 occur; but the general style of their archi- 

 tecture in their historical pictures, appears 

 to have been, like that of their figures, a 

 medium between the more simple and se- 

 vere dignity of the Roman and Florentine 



