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that with 
the 
aid 
of 
difRa1'e11t 
Wpes, 
it 
shohld 
not befit a Saviour or a Magdalene. 
must take along with us in this vreview, 
that 
the 
splendid 
patronage 
of 
the 
house 
of 
Medici 
came 
forward 
to 
meet, 
and 
to 
cherish 
the happy advancements 
Qf those days; so that 
made by the masters 
Florence, which was 
then 
the 
greatest 
seat of the 
arts, 
WES 
1'10 
less 
brilliant 
and 
illustrious in the generosity which 
perpetuate them, than in 
they had been cultivated. 
strove to 
by which 
the 
genius 
da Vinci, 
" Leonardo 
by _the principles which 
he so effectually realised, has always been 
considered as having established the manly as 
well as the graceful age CF modern art. But 
manhood 
is 
never 
SO 
fixed 
HS 
t0 
be 
incapable 
of progress. 
art 
attained in 
The""manh0od then 
was capable of farther advancement beyond 
the 
growth which the powers of Da Vinci had given 
This 
VVHS 
eminently 
illustrated 
by 
the 
sublimity 
of 
style 
which 
WES 
attained 
by 
the 
Michael- 
Qgenius of 
Angelo and of 
qliality equally 
both, 
original in 
although issuing