The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 331
sof time ; and, by an exclusive privilege, he continued toplease in the autumn of life, as well as in the spring.But his extraordinary endowments were often applied tothe corruption of public morals. He lent to debaucherythe graces of voluptuousness; and vice, in a manner,ennobled by his example,… … THE VIRGIN, THE INFANT JESUS, ANDSEVERAL SAINTS. RAPHAEL. There exists a great number of religious picturesthat delineate no particular event in sacred history.When the rules of propriety are strictly observed, as inthe picture before us, such performances may truly beregarded as poetical…
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