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Sacrament, 
and 
fche 
scholastic 
controversies 
at 
Athens, 
of this truth. 
convince us 
In the upper 
part of the Dispute on the Sacrament, something 
tnay be observed of that taste of Bartolomeo in 
drapery, and of the dryness and hardness of 
his first master Pietro Perugino; but in the parts 
which make the aggregate of that work, he has 
blended the resulteof his own observations. In( 
School of Athens, 
his 
this is still more strikingly 
the 
case ; 
and 
in 
his 
Heliodorus 
We 
see 
ditional dignity and an 
enlargement of style. 
ac At 
this 
period 
of 
his 
life, 
such 
VVELS 
the 
desire of his society by the 
great, 
and 
such the 
ambition of standing forward amongst his patrons 
by all who were eminent for rank and taste, that 
he was seduced into courtly habits, and relaxed 
from that studious industry, 
with which 
he had 
formerly laboured ; 
and there are evident marks 
in many of his works in the Vatican, 
of a decline 
of excellence, 
and that he was suffering pleasure 
him of his fame. 
and indolence to rob 
Sensible 
of this 
decline in his 
compositions, 
the 
POWGTS 
of hislmind re-assumed their energies; 
and that 
re-animation 
stands 
marked 
in 
his 
unrivalled