looking-glass. 
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ful fituations and varied profpe6ts, were he not ca- 
pable of drawing and defcribing all the component 
parts of the human body. Nay, how cold, dull, 
and gloomy, would his landfcapes appear, with- 
out being enlivened by the prefence of living crea- 
tures, efpecially man, the moft perfect being that 
came from the Creator’s hand ! 
Nothing fo clearly demonftrates the utility of the 
fcience of anatomy, as the fpecial care taken by the 
firft mafters, in all ages, to acquire a proficiency in 
fuch a collateral branch of their refpeftive profef- 
fions. 
It was thus that Raphael, Michael Angelo, Giu- 
lio Romano, the Carracci, Dominichini, Le Brun, 
Le Sueur, and other painters, fculptors, and archi- 
tects, immortalized their names. Indeed, fo per- 
fuaded was Michael Angelo of the importance of 
anatomical obfervations for improving the imita- 
tive arts, that he formed a defign of publifliing a 
compleat treatife on the mufcular motions. What 
a loft to the republic of letters that his projeCt was 
never executed ! For who better than him could 
have given ufeful lelTons upon a fubjeCt that he had 
long confidered in the moft pleafing point of view ; 
fince there never was his equal for joining the 
cleared theory to the moft compleat execution? 
His fuperior abilities are ftill difplayed in all thofe 
monuments of Roman grandeur which came from 
his pencil or his chifel, and have excited the ad- 
miration 
