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them a cold sickly appearance; his best 

 works, however, are entirely free from 

 that, as well as the opposite defect, and 

 his authority for the due proportion of 

 cool and warm colours which beauty re- 

 quires, is as high as any man's can be; 

 for no one studied beauty more diligently, 

 more successfully, or for a greater number 

 of years. 



In many of Rubens's works we distinguish 

 the freshness of the early season of the year; 

 and the whole of that well known picture 

 of the Duke of Rutland's, has the spring- 

 like hue of those flowers, which with so 

 gay and spring-like a profusion, yet still 

 with a painter's judgment, he has thrown 

 about it. But w-fien Titian introduces 

 flowers, they are made to accord with his 

 general principle; they are not the chil- 

 dren of spring; they seem to belong to a 

 later season: for he spreads over them an 

 autumnal hue and atmosphere, which would 

 make even Rubens's flowers, much more 

 those of a mere flower painter, look raw- 

 in comparison. 



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