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the painters who have most formed them* 

 selves on those models, however they may 

 have departed from them in certain points, 

 are most distinguished for some of those 

 excellencies ; but one very material differ- 

 ence between sculpture and painting, must 

 always be taken into consideration. In sculp* 

 ture, the whole work being of one uniform 

 colour, and the figures, whether single or 

 grouped, without any accompaniments, 

 there is nothing to seduce or distract the 

 eye from the form ; to which therefore ths 

 efforts of the sculptor are almost exclu- 

 sively directed : whereas in painting, the 

 charm of general effect or impression, of 

 whatever kind it may be, will often couiw 

 terbalance the greatest defects in point of 

 form, and make amends for the want of 

 grandeur, beauty, and correctness. 



The grandest style of painting is general- 

 ly allowed to be that of the Roman and 

 Florentine schools ; and among the works 

 produced by them, the fresco paintings of 

 Michael Angelo and Raphael claim the 

 .first place. Nearly the same rank may 



