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Compare also, on the different gradations of the life of nature, and on the tone 

 of mind and feeling awakened by landscape, Carus, in his interesting letters 

 on landscape painting (Briefen iiber die Landschaftmalerei, 1831, S. 45). 



C 121 ) p. 81. We find concentrated in the seventeenth century the works of 

 Johann Breughel, 15691625 ; Rubens, 15771640 ; Domenichino, 

 15811641 ; Philippe de Champaigne, 16021674 ; Nicolas Poussin, 

 15941655 ; Gaspar Poussin (Dughet), 1613 1675 ; Claude Lorraine 

 16001682; Albert Cuyp, 1606 1672; Jan Both, 1610 1650; Salvator 

 Rosa, 16151673; Everdingen, 16211675; Nicolaus Berghem, 1624 

 1683 ; Swanevelt, 16201690 ; Ruysdael, 16351681 ; Minderhoot 

 Hobbema, Jan Wynants, Adriaen van deVelde, 16391672 ; Carl Dujardin, 

 16441687. 



( 122 ) p. 81. An old picture of Cima da Conegliano, of the school of Bellino 

 (Dresdner Gallerie, 1835, No. 40), has some extraordinarily fanciful represen- 

 tations of date palms with a knob in the middle of the leafy crown. 



( 123 ) p. 82. Dresdner Gallerie, No. 917. 



O p. 83. Franz Post, or Poost, was born at Harlem, m 1620, and died 

 there in 1680. His brother likewise accompanied Count Maurice of Nassau 

 as architect. Of the paintings, some representing the banks ot the Amazons 

 are to be seen in the picture gallery at Schleisheim, and others at Berlin, 

 Hanover, and Prague. The engravings (in Barlaus, Reise des Prinsen Moritz 

 von Nassau, and in the royal collection of copperplate prints at Berlin) evi- 

 dence a fine sense of natural character in the form of the coast, the shape and 

 nature of the ground, and the aspect of vegetation, as displayed in musacse, 

 cactuses, palms, different species of ficus with board-like excrescences at the 

 foot of the stem, rhizophoras, and arborescent grasses. The picturesque 

 Brazilian series of views terminates singularly enough with a German forest of 

 pineasters surrounding the castle of Dillenburg (Plate Iv.) The remark in the 

 text (p. 82), on the influence which the establishment of botanic gardens in 

 Upper Italy, towards the middle of the sixteenth century, may have exercised 

 on the knowledge of the physiognomy of tropical forms of vegetation, induces 

 me to recal in this note that, in the thirteenth century, Albertus Magnus, who 

 was equally active and influential in promoting natural knowledge and the 

 study of the Aristotelian philosophy, possessed a hothouse in the convent of 

 the Dominicans at Cologne. This celebrated man, who had already fallen 

 under the suspicion of sorcery on account of his speaking machine, entertained 

 the King of the Romans, Wilhelm of Holland, on the 6th of January, 1249, in 

 a large space in the convent-garden, where he kept up an agreeable warmth, and 



