Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . cture in all Roman churches, is the Transfiguration, by Raphael, in the Montori°-church of S. Pietrc Montorio : the defign of it is fo * by the prints, particularly that of fir Nich. Dorigny,.that fay nothing of it. As to the execution, tho fo largea picture, tis highly finilhd, and the drawing part throughoutmoft admirable. The colouring feems to have been charigd,for the fhadows are become a little blackifh ; but the are very mellow. The expreff
Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, &cin the years MDCCXX, MDCCXXI, and MDCCXXII . cture in all Roman churches, is the Transfiguration, by Raphael, in the Montori°-church of S. Pietrc Montorio : the defign of it is fo * by the prints, particularly that of fir Nich. Dorigny,.that fay nothing of it. As to the execution, tho fo largea picture, tis highly finilhd, and the drawing part throughoutmoft admirable. The colouring feems to have been charigd,for the fhadows are become a little blackifh ; but the are very mellow. The expreffion in the figures belowthe mount is very ftrong, as that of thofe above, particularlyof the Chrift, is moft delicate: the whole affords an inex-preflible pleafure, notwithstanding the great difadvantage of a * Since I wrote this, there has been an old and fine copy of this pifture imported intoEngland; J fuppofe, it to be the fame I faw at Rome in the houfe of Sira. Giofeppe•Cluari, who aflirmd to me that it was the hand of Giulio Romano: It is inthe Sir Tho. Seabrieht Bart. * K very. 2C2- S. Maria to
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