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Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Pictures of the Late John Julius Angerstein, Esq.: Containing a Finished Etching of Every Picture, and Accompanied With Historical and Biographical Notices IN the school of Denis Calvert at Bologna, Domenichino studied the rudi ments of painting; but it was from the instructions and example of the Carracci that he imbibed the true principles of his art. He exhibited none of those presages of excellence with which minds very inferior to his are often endowed: his progress was slow, and often checked by the premature acquirements of others, while he directed his powers to the highest efforts of art. At Rome, the successful exertion of his talents rendered him the subject of envy and malevo lence and, on that account, he formed the resolution of retiring to Bologna. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.