Some Account xiv
“ It has frequently happened, (says this
great painter,) as I was informed by the
keeper of the Vatican, that many of those
whom he had conducted through the vari-
ous apartments of that edifice, when about
to be dismissed, have asked for the works of
Raffaelle, and would not believe that they
had already passed through the rooms where
they are preserved ; so little impression
had those performances made on them.
One of the first painters now in France
once told me, that this circumstance hap-
pened to himself; though he now looks on
Raffaelle with that veneration which he de-
serves from all painters and lovers of the
art. I remember very well my own disap-
pointment, when I first visited the Vati-
can ; but on confessing my feelings to a
brother-student, of whose ingenuousness I
had a high opinion, he acknowledged that
the works of Raffaelle had the same effect
on him, or rather that they did not pro-
duce the effect which he expected. This