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have
derived
most
of
the
principles
10f
their
celebrity.
4' The. papal vortex drew into. it nearly all
the various powers of" human refinement, and
the inspiring influence of the first school in art
having centered in Rome gave. itv superioiity,
till the Constable Bourbon; by sacking that city,
obliged the fine arts tp fly from their place, like
doves from the vultures: they never re-appeared
Rome but with
at
secondary power.
F' About a century subsequent to their {light
from Rome they were re-animated, and formed
the second school of art in Italy at the city of
Bologna under the Carracci, at the headof
whichlwas Ludovico. He and his two relatives,
Hanibal and Augustin Carracci, derived their
principles from the Venetian School, from
Titian, Paul Veronese, and Tintoret, and from
the Lombard School of Correggio and Par-
megiano. .But the good sense of Ludovico
raised by them and himself a school of their
own, which excelled in the power sofdelineating
the human figure, but which power gave" to thet-