CHAP.
Discourse. Introduction.-- On the Philosophy qf Cbaragjgr
in Art. - Of Phiclias._ Of Apelles. Of the Progress of
the Arts among the Modems. Of Leonardo do Vinci.-
Of lllichael Angelo, Raphael, and Bartolomeo. Qf
Titian. the Ejkcts of Patronage.
IT is not my intention to give all the discourses
which Mr. West addressed to the students of
the Academy, but only those which contain,
what may be called, illustrations of the principles
of his art. The following, however, is so
interesting and so various in its matter, that it
would be improper in me to make any attempt
to garble or abridge it, beyond omitting the
mere incidental notice of temporary circum-
stances.
" The discourse which I am about to deliver,
according to usual custom on the return of this
day, must be considered as addressed more