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school 
1'I1OI'6 
academical 
taste 
cha- 
than rhental 
racter. 
" Their great Work was that in the convent 
of St. Michael in Boresco, ndar Bologna; but 
this work has perished by damp, and the only 
remains on record of What it was, are- in the 
coarse prints which' were done from copies 
executed when it Was in good condition. But 
grand as it must have been according to the 
evidence of these prints, it was but an aca- 
demical composition. 
1 " The picture by Ludovico, however, of our 
Saviour'sZ Transfiguration on the Mount,  _con_ 
sisting of six figures double the size of life, has 
embraced" nearly all the 'pointso'f' art, and has 
placed the artist high in the first class of painters. 
Si 
The masters of the Bolognese school going 
to Rome and other parts of Italy, their successors 
at Bologna contented themselves by ietailing the 
several manners of the three Carracci  Guido, 
Domenichino 
and 
Guercino. 
This system of 
retailing 
continued 
despend 
froin 
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