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'Many must 'besutprisedat the anachronisms or ineonsistenèie.swliiéh are seen in·some pictures: such as The marriage of St. Katharine with the "·infant Jesus; St. An~~thony, St..Ignatius, and many others, with the blessed infant in their arms: but.these,ItlOwever, are not strictly .anachr:onisms, but rather pious representations of gmces.which it was the holy, will toconfer on eertain favomed persons.With aH this, however, certain it is that réal and palpable anachronisms do appeatin somepaintings ;sometimesarising.fr0lU. thecaprice.oftàe artists, sometimes from~the ignorance or bad taste of those who employed tham, When 1 first· saw in theifamous pictul'eof The Transfiguration, .by .Rafael, the twoFranciscan friars on thesummit of Mount Tabor, nearly side by side with our Saviour, Meses, and Elia!, itoccasioned meu@ little suvprise; a,nd 1 could notconceive how so enormous an-absurdityc0uld,hav.e been committed by one of the ierudition and truly delicate tastei(}f Rafael;untU riLrecotlected that this picture was .painted .by mm ,in compliance with'theap.pli~ationofacommunity of Capucins *-.Du ;.P.iles, .in.·his Â.rtof iPainting, reduces the science to four parts; 'composition,,Atrrangement,'colouring, and expressien. This division of.his is defective; for in iit is~anting'grace;.a feature ·infinitely moreesscI).tÎal togood .painting thanâny:.of thosc''"(hich he mentions. Grace, as a quality of the painter's pencil, is :the faculty of..qqnveyiI).g to,oriinspiring'his 'figures with,an air ofdignity and ~èpose,i~suchmannerthatit appears'natural to and inherel1t in them, and not aneffect of the ingenuity afthe.n,painter. This admirable talent 'is,what places .Rafael above atl the painters thatBver e»isted. Orac.e;/.in Rafael, ,is an ,inherentquality: :in .other paintersj the meteeffect of chance. 86me 'have drawn ascarl'ectly.; others have composedwithequalljudgement; have excelled him in colouring; but no·one ever 'equalledhiI).).iI).gJlace.reason why the pictures of Rafael please the more they~tl,l~t(li~ ;~l1'.Jî)judge$ {eel themselves compelled to dwell upon them every timewjthaddi~ona.l;mil1utene$sof ;in~es'tigation,andquitthem every time with iJlcreâsesleb~et.)lt i$ neceasary ta'observe here)that grace mustnot 'heconfounded withelegance.For grace .consists, as has been already obser~ed, in dignityand rep?se: and Elegancecon$ists in delicacy àlld ,repose. One lS noble, t4e other soft. Many prooters ha\'esucceeded inthis latterperfecÛon, but ,Guido, l tbink, beyood themalL CorreggioQnitedthem ina .particulardegree. His attitudes ar:e usually graceful; oot his head~base; plebeianor.vile,rarelypossess that dignity which constitutes what we caU aDoble.air. Thus.inhi-sSchoolof Love, which is in the possession of·'the Duke of'.''''' 'Fhisstatement'is llOtstrïliltlycol'l'eet j :Duttheanachronillm 18 quite as gros! ll8 Ml'. Henry're,presem..iitJwre..