[120] Vasari, "Proemio," i. 212.
[121] Cosa allora rara, non essendosi dissotterata quella abbondanza che si è fatta ne' tempi nostri, i. 203.
[122] "2nd Commentary," in Vasari, I. xxviii.
[123] Gaye, i. 360.
[124] Cf. the action of the Directory in year vi. of the French Republic. They ordered the statues looted in Italy to be paraded in Paris—hoping to find the clue to ancient supremacy. Louis David pointedly observed, "La vue ... formera peut-être des savans, des Winckelmann: mais des artistes, non."
[125] "Works," 1796, i. 151.
[126] "Lectures," 1838, p. 248.
[127] Semper, p. 93.
[128] Ed. 1768, p. 74.
[129] "Donatellus, qui primum omnium vetustis monumentis mirifice delectatus est, eaque imitari ac probe exprimere in suis operibus adsidue studuit."—"Dactyliotheca Smithiana," 1768, II. p. cxxvi.