peculiarities are, without exception, weaknesses, induced in a highly intellectual and inventive mind by being fed on medals, books, and _bassi-relievi_ instead of nature, and by the want of any deep sensibility." Thus he "had noble powers of design, and might have been a thoroughly great painter had he been trained in Venice;[74] but his Roman education kept him tame; his trenchant severity was contrary to the tendencies of his age, and had few imitators, compared to the dashing of Salvator and the mist of Claude. These few imitators adopted his manner without possessing either his science or invention; and the Italian School of landscape soon expired.... This restraint, peculiarly classical, is much too manifest in him; for, owing to his habit of never letting himself be free, he does nothing as well as it ought to be done, rarely even as well as he can himself do it; and his best beauty is poor, incomplete and characterless, though refined." Finally, his "want of sensibility permits him to paint frightful subjects without feeling any true horror; his pictures of the plague are thus ghastly in incident, sometimes disgusting, but never impressive:" see 165 (collected from _Modern Painters_, vol. i. preface, p. xxv., pt. ii. sec. i. ch. vii. § 14; vol. ii. pt. iii. sec. ii. ch. ii. § 19; vol. iii. pt. iv. ch. xviii. § 28; vol. v. pt. ix. ch. v. § 17). The wine-god is represented in infancy, nursed by the nymphs and fauns of Euboea, and fed not on milk but on the juice of the grape. "The picture makes one thirsty to look at it--the colouring even is dry and adust. The figure of the infant Bacchus seems as if he would drink up a vintage--he drinks with his mouth, his hands, his belly, and his whole body. Gargantua was nothing to him" (Hazlitt: _Criticisms on Art_, p. 33). 40. LANDSCAPE: PHOCION. _Nicolas Poussin_ (French: 1593-1665). _See_ 39.