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qualities which distinguish S. Rosa, though 

 fee has not the boldness and animation of 

 that original genius. There is hardly any 

 painter, whose pictures more immediately 

 catch the eye of a connoisseur than those 

 of Mola, or less attract the notice of a 

 person unused to painting. Salvator has 

 a Savage grandeur, often in the highest 

 degree sublime; and sublimity in any 

 shape, will command attention: but Mo- 

 la's scenes anfl figures, are for the most 

 part neither sublime nor beautiful; they 

 are purely picturesque: his touch is less 

 rough than Salvator's; his colouring has, 

 in general, more richness and variety; and 

 his pictures seem to me the most perfect 

 examples of the higher stile of picturesque- 

 ness: infinitely removed from vulgar na- 

 ture, but having neither the softness and 

 delicacy of beauty, nor that grandeur of 

 conception which produces the sublime. 



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