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the other masters of his and the Romari 

 school : their colouring, however well 

 adapted to the character of their figures 

 and compositions, however it may satisfy 

 the judgment, has little to please the eye ; 

 and I should conceive that if it were ap- 

 plied to objects divested of grandeur and 

 dignity, the union would appear incon- 

 gruous, and that the affinity I mentioned 

 between the grand style of painting and 

 sculpture would be still more evident from 

 their being almost equally unfit to repre- 

 sent objects merely picturesque. 



The Venetian style, on the other hand, 

 in which there is a greater variety of 

 colours, and those broken, and blended 

 into each other, is in itself extremely at- 

 tractive from its richness, glow and har- 

 mony : it gives a sort of consequence and 

 elevation to objects the most simply pic- 

 turesque, yet preserves their just character. 

 One painter of this school, must in some 

 measure be considered separately from 

 the rest; for when Sir Joshua Reynolds 

 speaks of the Venetian style as ornamental 



