They should not be described, but reproduced.

They are many and precious, yet is there not so much of high excellence as I had expected: they will not float the heart on a boundless sea of feeling, like the starry night on our Western prairies.

Yet I love much to see the galleries of marbles, even when there are not many separately admirable, amid the cypresses and ilexes of Roman villas; and a picture that is good at all looks very good in one of these old palaces.
The Italian painters whom I have learned most to appreciate, since I came abroad, are Domenichino and Titian.

Of others one may learn something by copies and engravings: but not of these.

The portraits of Titian look upon me from the walls things new and strange.