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bias, and abandoned thcmfelves to their own peculiartafte. Barto. Schidone, Guido Reni [f) s GiovanniLanfranco, Francefco Albani, Domenico Zampieri , andFrancefco Barbieri, called Guercino , differed as muchin their objedts of imitation as their names. Schidone ,all of whofe mind was in his eye, embraced, and oftento meaner fubjedts applied the harmony and colour ofCorreggio , whilft Lanfrancho ftrove, but drove withoutfuccefs, to follow him through the expanfe of his crea-tion and maffes. Grace attracted Guido , but it was theftudied grace of theatres : his female forms are abftradlsof antique beauty, attended by languifhing attitudes,arrayed by voluptuous falhions. His male forms, tran-fcripts of models, fuch as are found in a genial climate,are fometimes highly charadteriftic of dignified manhoodor apoftolic fervour, like his Peter and Paul, formerlyin the Zampieri at Bologna : fometimes {lately, cour-teous, infipid, like his Paris attending Helen, more withthe air of an ambaffadour, by proxy, than carrying heroff with a lover’s fervour. His Aurora deferved toprecede a more majeftic fun, and hours lefs clumfy:his colour varies with his ftyle, fometimes bland and

harmonious,

(/) Guido Keni died in 1(542, aged 68. Giov. Lanfranco died at Naples in1647, aged 66. Franc. Aibani died in i860, aged 82. Domenico Zampieri , calledil Domenichino , died in 1641, aged' 60. Franc. Barbieri, of Cento, called ilGuercino , from a call in his eye, died in 1667, aged 76.