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tiori, the best pretensions to the title ; but 

 as that word is so commonly used merely 

 to signify excellent, and as in that sense 

 all styles which are suited to the subject, 

 and all pictures which give a just and 

 impressive representation of the objects, 

 (though the most hideous and disgusting) 

 are equally beautiful* Sir Joshua might 

 naturally have declined giving it that name, 

 even supposing him inclined to make such 

 a distinction. He seems, however, in some 

 degree to have indicated it; first by what 

 he says of Guido's manner being particu- 

 larly adapted to express female beauty and 

 delicacy ; and secondly by the whole ac- 

 count of the manner of Correggio ; which, 

 it must be observed, he has not classed 

 either with the ornamental, or with the 

 grand style. He remarks indeed in an- 

 other place, that it has something of the 

 simplicity of the grand style in the breadth 

 of the light and shadow, and the continued 

 flow of outline; but no person, I think, who 

 reads the description of it just quoted, can 

 doubt that having neither the solemnity 



