The works of Jonathan Richardson : containing I. The theory of painting. II. Essays on the art of criticism, so far as it relates to painting. III. The science of a connoisseur (1792)
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797. Anecdotes of painting in England · [London] : Sold by B. White & Son... T. and J. Egerton ... J. Debrett ... R. Faulder and W. Miller ... J. Cuthell ... J. Barker ... and E. Jeffery ... · leaf 102
s his own, not antique, but he had a fort ofgreatnefs in the utmoft degree, which fometimes ran into the ex-treme of terrible ; though in many inftances he has a fine feafoningof grace. I have a womans head of him of a delicacy hardly in-ferior to Rafaelle, but retains the greatnefs which was his… … ( 87 ) what is entirely of Michelangelo, or even to what is entirely ofParmeggiano, efpecially his bed; but they are as if they were ofanother hand, or of a character between both : for Parmeggiano wasinfinitely fweet! Grace fhines in all he touched, and a greatnefsthat fupports it, fo as one would…
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