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fays the fame in other words, that the Fancy more inflruds 

 the Painter trian the Imitation ; for the laft makes only the 

 things which it fees, but the firil makes alfo the things which 

 it never fees. 



" Leon Battifla Alberti tells us, that we ought not fo much 

 to love the Likenefs as the Beauty, and to choofe from the 

 faired bodies feverally the faired parts. Leonardo da Vinci 

 inflrudts the Painter to form this Idea to himfelf ; and Raphael, 

 the greateft of all modern Mailers, writes thus to Caftiglione, 

 concerning his Galatea: " To paint a fair one, it is necefTary 

 " for me to fee many fair ones ; but becaufe there is fo great a 

 " fcarcity of lovely women, I am constrained to make ufe of 

 " one certain Idea, which I have formed to niyfelf in my own 

 " fancy." Guido Reni fending to Rome his St. Michael, 

 which he had painted for the Church of the Capuchins, at the 

 fame time wrote to Monfignor MafTano, who was the maeftro 

 di cafa (or fleward of the houfe) to Pope Urban VIII. in this 

 manner : '* I wim I had the wings of an angel, to have 

 *< afcended into Paradife, and there to have beheld the forms of 

 ' thofe beatified fpirits, from which I might have copied my 

 " Archangel : But not being able to mount fo high, it was in 

 " vain for me to fearch his refemblance here below ; fo that I 

 " was forced to make an introfpeclion into my own mind, and 

 into that Idea of Beauty, which I have formed in my own 

 *' imagination. I have likewife created there the contrary Idea 

 " of Deformity and Uglinefs ; but I leave the confideration of it 

 " till I paint the Devil, and, in the mean-time, fhun the very 

 ' thought of it as much as poflibly I can, and am even Cndea- 

 " vouring to blot it wholly out of my remembrance." There 

 was not any Lady in all antiquity who was Miftrefs of fo much 

 Beauty, as was to be found in the Venus of Gnidus, made by 

 Praxiteles, or the Minerva of Athens, by Phidias, which was 



therefore 



