They are portraits of men such as I have not known.

In his picture, absurdly called _Sacred and Profane Love_, in the Borghese Palace, one of the figures has developed my powers of gazing to an extent unknown before.
Domenichino seems very unequal in his pictures; but when he is grand and free, the energy of his genius perfectly satisfies.

The frescos of Caracci and his scholars in the Farnese Palace have been to me a source of the purest pleasure, and I do not remember to have heard of them.

I loved Guercino much before I came here, but I have looked too much at his pictures and begin to grow sick of them; he is a very limited genius.

Leonardo I cannot yet like at all, but I suppose the pictures are good for some people to look at; they show a wonderful deal of study and thought.