Volltext: The life, studies and works of Benjamin West, Esq. president of The Royal Academy of London

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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-
	        
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