[5]. The rich impasting of Titian and Giorgione combines something of the advantages of both these styles, the felicity of the one with the carefulness of the other, and is perhaps to be preferred to either.
[6]. Leonardo da Vinci.
[7]. Titian.
[8]. Michael Angelo.
[9]. Correggio.
[10]. Annibal Caracci.
[11]. Rubens.
[12]. Rafaelle.
[13]. If we take away from the present the moment that is just gone by and the moment that is next to come, how much of it will be left for this plain, practical theory to rest upon? Their solid basis of sense and reality will reduce itself to a pin’s point, a hair-line, on which our moral balance-masters will have some difficulty to maintain their footing without falling over on either side.
[14]. A treatise on the Millennium is dull; but who was ever weary of reading the fables of the Golden Age? On my once observing I should like to have been Claude, a person said, ‘they should not, for that then by this time it would have been all over with them.’ As if it could possibly signify when we live (save and excepting the present minute), or as if the value of human life decreased or increased with successive centuries. At that rate, we had better have our life still to come at some future period, and so postpone our existence century after century ad infinitum.