 Maratti, and from thence to the very bathos of insipidity to which they are now sunk; so that there is no need of remarking, that where I mentioned the Italian painters in opposition to the Dutch, I mean not the moderns, but the heads of the old Roman...  The Discourses - Page 275by Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 283 pagesFull view - About this book
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...contributions to the Idler: • • --' • :\ A • , 1! *-*5fla: ! " ' i ' .'V ; - '•-*£ / . j ' • " I have only to add a word of advice to the painters,...they may be in painting naturally, they would not flatter themselves very much upon it; and to the connoisseurs, that when they see a cat or a fiddle... | |
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