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has defigned them but moderately well : There are even fome 

 of his draperies which are mean, and in a little tafte. His 

 Painting is wonderfully glowing, fweet and delicate. He 

 drew portraits, which were extremely noble ; the attitudes of 

 them being very graceful, grave, diverfified, and adorned after 

 a very becoming fafhion. No man ever painted landfcape in 

 fo great a manner, fo well coloured, and with fuch Truth of 

 Nature. For eight or ten years fpace, he copied, with great 

 labour and exactnefs, whatfoever he undertook; thereby to 

 make himfelf an eafy way, and to eftablifti fome general 

 maxims for his future conduct. Befides the excellent gufto 

 which he had in colouring, in which he excelled all mortal 

 men, he perfectly underftood how to give every thing thofe 

 touches which were moft fuitable and proper to them; fuch 

 as diftinguifhed them from each other, and which gave the 

 greateft fpirit, and the moft of truth. The pictures which he 

 made in his beginning, and in the declenfion of his age, are of 

 a dry and mean manner. He lived ninety-nine years. His 

 Difciples were Paulo Veronefe, Giacomo Tintoret, Giacomo 

 da Ponte Baffano, and his fons. 



PAULO VERONESE was wonderfully graceful in his airs of 

 women, with great variety of brilliant draperies, and incredible 

 vivacity and eafe; neverthelefs his corhpofition is fometimes 

 improper, and his defign incorrect : but his colouring, and 

 whatfoever depends on it, is fo very charming in his pictures, 

 that it furprizes at the firft fight, and makes us totally forget 

 thofe other qualities in which he fails. 



TINTORET was the Difciple of Titian ; great in defign and 

 practice, but fometimes alfo greatly extravagant. He had 

 an admirable genius for Painting, but not fo great an affection 

 for his art, or patience in the executive part of it, as he had 

 fire and vivacity of Nature. He yet has made pitf ures not 



inferior 



