The colour of Carracci’s saint is much more characteristic of fleshy though nearly bloodless substance, than that chosen by his rival, which is withered, shrivelled, leathery in the lights, and earthy in the shades; but the head of the officiating priest in Domenichino, whether considered as a specimen of colour independent of the rest, or as set off by it, for truth, tone, freshness, energy, is not only the best Domenichino ever painted, but perhaps the best that can be conceived.
SIXTH LECTURE.
CHIAROSCURO.
Non sumum ex fulgore, sed ex sumo dare lucem.
Horat. de Arte Poet. I. 143.
ARGUMENT.
Definition.—Lionardo da Vinci.—Giorgione.—Antonio da Correggio.