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and after his deceafe, the fchool of the Carraches went daily 

 to decay, in all the parts of Painting. 



Gio. VIOLA was very old before he iearned landfcape; 

 the knowledge of which was imparted to him hy Hannibal 

 Carrache, who took pleafure to inftrucl: him ; fo that he 

 painted many of that kind, which are wonderfully fine, and 

 well coloured. 



If we caft our eyes towards Germany and the Low Coun- 

 tries, we may there behold ALBERT DURER, LUCAS VAN 

 LEYDEN, HOLBEIN, ALDEGRAVE, &c. who were all co- 

 temporaries. Amongft thefe, Albert Durer and Holbein were 

 both of them wonderfully knowing, and had certainly been 

 of the firft form of Painters, had they travelled into Italy; for 

 nothing can be laid to their charge, but only that they had a 

 Gothic guflo. As for Holbein, his execution furpalTed even 

 that of Raphael ; and I have feen a portrait of his painting, 

 with which one of Titian's could not come in competition. 



Amongft the Flemings, appeared RUBENS, who had, from 

 his birth, a lively, free, noble, and univerfal genius : A genius 

 capable not only of railing him to the rank of the antient 

 Painters, but alib to the higheil employments in the fervice 

 of his country; fo that he was chofen for one of the moil 

 important embarHes in our time. His gufto of defign favours 

 fomewhat more of the Flemim than of the beauty of the an- 

 tique, becaufe he (layed not long at Rome. And though we 

 cannot but obferve in all his Paintings ideas which are great 

 and noble, yet it muft be confefTed, that, generally fpeaking, 

 he defigned not correctly; but, for all the other parts of 

 Painting, he was as abfolute a matter of them, and pofleffed 

 them all as thoroughly as any of his predeceilbrs in that noble 

 art. His principal fludies were made in Lombardy, after the 

 works of Titian, Paulo Veronefe, and Tintoret, whofe cream 



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