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THE DANCE OF APOLLO AND THE MUSES. executing them with exactness, he appropriated to himself, in some degree, the beauties of that illustrious painter.

But, upon his death, abandoning himself to the fire of his own character, he neglected many important points. He no longer consulted nature, that source of infinite variety, and frequently wholly neglected her in the attitude of his heads, and the folds of his draperies. His carnations are red, and his shadows somewhat outrées. Notwithstanding these defects, we cannot but admire the sublimity of his thoughts, and the prodigious fecundity of his imagination.

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