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Italy's claim as an University for \/ the arts of Design are indisputable, for the number of[deleted] \/ and consummate character of her Galleries & Collections, \/ for the Stupendous works of Ml Angelo, Raphael, Titian \/ and the restorers of painting all of which are painted \/ on walls and cannot be removed, the Architectural \/ remains, the relation of these with the classical Litera \/ =ture of the country and of Greece, the warm climate \/ favourable to the study of the human figure, and that \/ general state of tranquillity, and freedom from those \/ dissipations which infect some Capitals of Europe, \/ all these advantages are peculiarly enjoyed in Rome, \/ Florence, Pisa, and throughout the Ponifical[sic] & Tuscan \/ states and thus possess a union of advantages not possi \/ =ble to be concentrated in any other Country in the present \/ state of the world, for compleating[sic] an education of principles \/ in the arts of Design. \/ Here we will finish the digression and return to the Royal \/ Donation in its value[deleted] extent, character and value _ \/ The groups, statues, bassorelieves[sic], Busts, and fine \/ fragments were sufficeiently numerous to have furnished \/ an extensive range of study supposing there had been \/ no previous collection in the Royal Schools, the Character \/ and value will be best understood by an enumeration of the \/ principal articles accompanied with such remarks as \/ may imprint on the younger Student a strong sense \/ of the excellence which may be transplanted into his own \/ mind from such examples by diligence and labor.[sic] \/ Let us begin with Laocoon which in the time of \/ Pliny was accounted the most consummate work of Painting \/ and Sculpture _ it's sentiment is sublime the whole is[preceding three words deleted] and pathetic"}]},{"location":"verso","method":"ink","transcription":[{"value":"the forms are noble & expressive, the whole is composed \/ into a continued & varied series of undulations in \/ agreement with the movement of those foes which \/ assault Laocoon & his Sons, and the writing agonies \/ their venom has caused, laborious treatises have \/ been written on this Group, but is one thing to fill \/ a Volume which captivates by the appearance of Enthus \/ =siasm & shew of learning, and a totally different task to \/ convey sound instruction _ Mr. Fuseli in his \/ Lectures has given a description of this group \/ equally worthy of a great poet & painter. \/ The Apollo Belvidere, so called from the garden \/ of the Vatican, but in reality, the deliverer from evil, has been both philosophically & popularly considered \/ as a form animated by such a sentiment as might \/ become a supernatural power revealed to mortal sight _ \/ hints are not wanting in ancient monuments and \/ authors which lead to believe the archetype of this \/ Statue by Phidias _ \/ The Venus of the Capitol an example of more \/ dignified & less insinuating beauty than the Venus \/ de Medicis _ this statue is certainly a copy from \/ one of the three enumerated by Pliny among the \/ works of Praxiteles*. \/ The Apollo Saurvetono[?] or Lizard killer, from an \/ Antique bronze in the Villa Albani likewise copied \/ from a work of Praxiteles_* \/ The satyr by the same sculptore[sic]* \/ In the Hall are five of these statues & one Group \/ which may be described in succession. \/ The Colossal statue of Minerva placed opposite \/ the fire was discovered about 24 years sinsce \/ a duplicate of the same statue has since been found \/ in the neighbourhood of Rome. 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