This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... and expands our thoughts, and makes nature herself appear to be diminished. Raffaello's fresco pictures have suffered much by the lapse of time, and the School of Athens is more injured than the rest; nevertheless, these works still shew how much superior he was to all other painters, and also to himself in oil colors ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1829 Excerpt: ... and expands our thoughts, and makes nature herself appear to be diminished. Raffaello's fresco pictures have suffered much by the lapse of time, and the School of Athens is more injured than the rest; nevertheless, these works still shew how much superior he was to all other painters, and also to himself in oil colors: his small easel pictures are dry, and characterised by a littleness of manner; and are as inferior to his fresco pictures as Pietro Perugino is inferior to Titian. Sir Joshua Reynolds has remarked that the general character of his pictures in oil seems to shew a hand cramped and confined, and to want that facility and spirit which he so admirably preserved in his fresco works; nor did Raffaello ever acquire in oil painting that nicety of taste in coloring, that breadth of chiar'-oscuro, that art and management of uniting light to light, and shadow to shadow, so as to make the object rise out of the ground with the plenitude and effect so much to be admired in the works of Correggio. His fresco pictures in Rome, his Tapestries, with the Cartoons, now at Hampton Court, for design and composition, are the great works on which his fame is so justly founded. These Cartoons appear not to have been painted entirely by Raffaello, but to have been enlarged from smaller drawings and to have been corrected by him. The proportions of many of the figures are too short, a defect I do not remember in his other works; and by examining the heads nothing can be more obvious than that some have been worked upon by Raffaello, and some not. The Museum now possesses all its former treasures, with some additions by the late Pope, who added a new saloon of great elegance, which is called, II nuovo Sraccio del Museo Chiaramonti. What the palaces of Imperial Rome mig...
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