284. 
Storm in Harveftis not yet finifhed, but, 
from the prefent appearance, gives every 
-promife of being a firft-rate production. 
At the late Sir William Mufgrave’s, 
and fome other late fales, the rare prints 
fold at prices beyond all calculation ; and 
thofe purchafers who would have made 
mouths at many of the originals, have now 
given twenty, thirty, nay fifty, pieces for 
their piétures in litle! This mania 1s, 
however, fome encouragement to collec- 
tors;—it pays them higher intereft for 
their money than the funds ; for in every 
fale, the prices are higher than they were 
in thofe that preceded them. 
| ‘The fale of the prints which belonged 
to the late Mr. Dalby of Liverpool, will, 
we have been informed, be at Colnaghi’s 
the beginning of the month. He colleéted 
at a period when there was as great a rage 
for the works of Rembrandt, as there has 
been of late years for the works of our 
juftly admired countryman, Hogarth: 
though, as the prints of the former had 
Jittle to recommend them, except their 
effec, and thofe of the latter are invariably 
marked with character, truth, and nature, 
it is reafonable to think, that, while men 
reafon, they will continue to be held in 
high eftimation. lig 
The piétures and prints colle&ted by the 
late Mr. Strange, many years refident at 
Venice, were fold by Chriftie the latter 
end of laft month, in Portland Place. It 
was rather a collection than a fele€tion, 
but fome of the pictures, and prints too, 
fold at a high price. 
Fufeli’s Milton Gallery is again adver- 
tifed, with additional piétures. Of this very 
great undertaking, by one man, we fhall 
give a more particular account. 
The Central Mufeum of Arts is char- 
ged by the Minifter of the Interior, 
with the taking moulds from the antique 
ftatues arrived from Italy. It is to fell 
thele platter figures to artifts, and to the 
central {chools, at very eafy rates. The 
Mufleum is alfo authorized to fell at the 
fame low prices thofe which it poffefles at 
this time, fuch as thofe from Germanicus, 
from the groupe of Ca/cr and Pollux, from 
Apollo, &c. &e. 
The bronze of Mars afleep, which was 
in the Mufeum, has been transferred, with 
the Aorfes and /ion trom Venice, into the 
¢t-devant church of the invalids, which is 
hereafter to be called the Temple of Mars. 
The Miniftes of the Interior has ap- 
pointed the celebrated antiquary, Vis- 
contri, (Ex-conful of the Roman Repub- 
lic, and author of the excellent Deicrip- 
Retrofpedt of the Fine Arts. 
guith the produ&tions of that artift. “His 
~ 
[April z, 
tion of the Mufeum Pio-Clementinum) to 
the place of Antiquary of the Central 
Mufeum of Arts. 
Account of nine of the principal Paintings compofed 
by living Artis, which bave been lately exhi~ 
bited at Paris. 
It may not be improper, by way of 
prelude, to remark, that the French 
{chool of the prefent day has been divided 
into three different clafles. The firft con- 
fits of the pupils who have lately fallied 
forth from the workfhops of Vien, of 
David, of Renaud, &c. and who, by dif- 
playing unufual talents, have, at the fame 
time, imprefled the public with unufual 
hopes. 
Along with thefe, are to be ranked all 
who propofe to themfelves a fevere and 
fyftematical ftudy of antiquity, a correc 
obfervance of nature, the manner, at once 
charming and grand, of Raphael, the ener- 
getical ftyle of Julio Romano, the admira- 
ble xaiveté of Leonard da Vinci, the fub- 
lime art, and what fome even term the 
profound philofophy, of Pouffin. 
The fecond clafs comprehends the old 
academy, which ftill affects its theatrical 
majefty, and its ancient manner and fyftem, 
now deemed ob/olete. é 
The third confifts of thofe who lean 
towards the new fchool, but who eontinu- 
ally difplay the early impreffions of edu- 
cation on minds not calculated .to foar 
above its prejudices. 
If we are to believe fome of their coun- 
trymen, thefe various divifions of the art 
difplay the age of ignorance, that is about 
to difappear ; the age of true tafte, that be- 
gins to dawn; and the age of philofophy, 
that already fhoots forth the firit rays of 
its iplendor, 
1. Marcus-Curtius devoting bimfelf. ‘for bis Coune 
try. By Callet. 
The principal fubject and acceffories 
are equally theatrical. On one fide are 
the priefts, and all the appendages of a 
fuperftition long fince exploded. The po- 
pular curiofity and admiration; a horrid 
gulph, emitting a dreary, doleful flame: 
all thefe prepare the mind for the hero, 
who precipitates himfelf on horfeback! 
This is agrand fubjeét, but the critics 
have pronounced (to adopt a wulgarifm 
frequently made ufe of by our own artifts), 
that it is badly handled. In the firft place, 
it is {aid to be pantomimital, the defign 
devoid of judgment, and the colouring far 
too gaudy.’ In fhort, the artift is advifed 
to ftudy Sadolet’s pi€ture on the fame fub- 
ject, and to re-perude Livy. 
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