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are both of them etched by Giar. Francisco 

 Grimaldi, the famous landscape painter of 

 the Carach school. 



In the landscapes of Nicholas Poussin, 

 there are more regular finished pieces of ar- 

 chitecture, and those made principal ob- 

 jects, than in almost any other painter. 

 Claude is an exception, and he brought them 

 still nearer to the eye : the style of their ar- 

 chitecture is, however, as different, as that of 

 their landscapes; it is the difference of male, 

 from female beauty. In Poussin's build- 

 ings, the symmetry is often so perfectly un- 

 disguised, from their being placed directly 

 opposite the eye without any effect of per- 

 spective, that many persons, if they were 

 not checked by such authority, would pro- 

 nounce, that no painter could make use of 

 them in that manner.: yet this great artist, 

 who so wellknew the value of straight lines, 

 and of uniformity, has shewn with how 

 much skill he could diversify the outlines of 

 his buildings, when he saw occasion for it ; 

 and exchange the grandeur of simplicity, 

 for that of splendid variety. One instance 



