[23] Commonly called the Castor and Pollux of Monte Cavallo,—the name given from their horses to the Quirinal.
[24] Plin. N.H. l. xxxv. c. ix. Tantus diligentia, ut Agrigentinis facturus tabulam, quam in templo Junonis Lucinæ publice dicarent, inspexerit virgines eorum nudas, et quinque elegerit, ut quod in quaque laudatissimum esset, pictura redderet.
[25] Mengs Lettera à don A. Ponz. Opere di A.R. Mengs, t. ii. p. 83.
[26] Such was probably that austerity of tone in the works of Athenion, which the ancients preferred to the sweetness or gayer tints of Nicias—"austerior colore et in austeritate jucundior."—Plin. l. xxxv. c. xi.
[27] See the sonnet of Agostino Carracci, which begins "Chi farsi un bon Pittor cerca e desia," &c. which the author himself seems to ridicule by the manner in which he concludes.
[28] Οὐκ ἀγαθον πολυκοιρανιη εἱς κοιρανος ἐστω.
Il. ii. 204.
The conception of every great work must originate in one, though it may be above the power or strength of one to execute the whole.
[29] Pliny, l. xxxiv. c. 8.
[30] In the Letter to C.B. Castiglione. Ideal is properly the representation of pure human essence.
[31] Raffaelle and the best of his pupils; their successors, commonly known by the name of the Roman school, followed principles diametrically opposite.