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studies for the higher styles of buildings, 

 and for the use which may be made of them ; 

 for none ever more diligently studied their 

 effect and character, as well as the charac- 

 ter of the objects which they were to accom- 

 pany. That severe and learned simplicity, 

 which in his figures he had acquired by his 

 studious imitation of the ancients, he was 

 not likely to abandon in the other branches 

 of the art : and as no painter was more sen- 

 sible of the grandeur arising from strait lines, 

 of those as might naturally be expected, he 

 has made frequent use in architecture, to 

 which they are so congenial. These prin- 

 ciples are every where exemplified in his 

 works, in which we never see the profuse 

 ornaments of Pietro da Cortona, or the 

 splendid incongruities of Paul Veronese ; 

 and that not for want of skill in the execu- 

 tion : for his touch, when he chose to intro- 

 duce vases, foliage, masks, or other decora- 

 tions, was not inferior to that of either of 

 those masters. His Sacraments are modelis 

 of that plainness and sobriety of architec- 

 ture which the subjects required: ofthflii 



