Reflections On the Painting And Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions ...
Reflections On the Painting And Sculpture of the Greeks: With Instructions ...
Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Henry Fuseli
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The difference of the hands is vifible : but in the Madonna^ the f{Mrit of that epoch, in which Raphael poformed his Athenian fi:hool, ihines with io full a luftre, as to make even the antfao* rity of Vafati fuperfluous. 'Tis no eafy matter to convince a critkk,. tronceited enou^ to blame the Jefus of the Madonna^ that he is mi^sdcen. Pythagoras, fays an antient philoibpher^ and Anaxa*^ goras look at the fun vitik diifetent eyes t the former fees a God, the latter a fbne. We want but experience... to difcovcr truth and beauty in the faces of Raphael, with- ' Maxim. Tyr, Diff. 25. p. 303. Edit. Markl. N 4. out 1 84 Jnfuoer to the foregoing Letter. out eaquiring into their digiiify : beauty pleafes, but ferious graces charm*. . Such are the beauties of the ancients, which gave that ferious air to Antinpus, which we generally afcribe to his fhading locks. Sudden raptures, or the enticement of a glance, are often momentary ; let an attentive ^ye dwell upon thofe confufed beauties which the tranfient look conveys, and the paint will vani(h.
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