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ROYAL ACADE WY.

Monday evening, Mr. Puma delivered the intro-
ductory Lecture to his course upon Painting. The
subject of this discourse, was the present state of the
Art in the civilized world, and the impossibility of its
ever again attaining its former elevation. The state
of Art (remarked the Professor) was the criterion by
which we ever deduce the degree of refinement and
civilization of a nation, as it is evn parallel with a
nation's habits, manners, and customs. The high per-
fection which Greek art attained, was owing to its
felicity in these concomitant circumstances. The gene-
ral elegance of mind throughout the Greek nation,
their Poets, their contentions in refined accomplish-
ments, their public games, their athletic exercises, and
their serene climate, most auspiciously tended towards
the developement of taste. As these never again with
equal felicity united, Art has never again approached'
so near the verge of perfection. It was to another,
though not so powerful a stimulus, that modern Art
owed its ascendancy—the general predilection for it,
I in consequence of the establishment of Christianity:
with this impulse, it reigned successfully during the
114th and 15th Centuries ; but as zeal relaxed, and
as public spirit gave way to private splendour, it be-
came degraded and debauched, and soon sunk to
insipidity, while little short of a total revolution can
again reinstate it. •
During the prosperity of Art, observed the Pro-
fessor, the Public and the Artist went hand in hand i
if we now meet with the epic and dramatic powers
of Michael Angelo and Raphael, where is the reli-
ginus or pnblic spirit to stimulate and reWard thema
Nottiitistanalng. exhibition now succeeds exhibition,
and panorama, panorama ; notwithstanding the noise
of sculptors'-hammers stuns our ears, and monuments
shoulder one another in our cathedrals,. no gorgeous
display of accidental and partial encouragement, can
supply the place of these permanent and universal 1
principles_of encouragement, which, as abe..e stated,
have fallen into4de4ay.' •The Prolesier then took a
cursory view of French Art, and remarked, that al-
though their Revolution had elivered them from the
yoke of superstition,..it•had precipitated_theen to the
depths of irreligion, of which two .morardiseases, the
former was most propitioter to Art, as least likely to
become incurable; whereas the letter ever exhibited'
that .palsied apathy, the cadaterons syantwm ap-
, preaching dissolution. Tae robbery aryl, 4mportation
.of Grp:; and Italian works, Upon. which their confi.
'.,tlfEttce of improvenient ancterfeednn was fnundeiri
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