Every thing that RAPHAEL'S pencil has produced is in the first order. That master has something greatly superior in his manner: he really appears as a god among painters. Addison seems to have been impressed with the truth of this sentiment, when he thus expresses himself: "Fain would I RAPHAEL'S godlike art rehearse, And shew th' immortal labours in my verse, When from the mingled strength of shade and light, A new creation rises, to my sight: Such heav'nly figures from his pencil flow, So warm with life his blended colours glow, From theme to theme with secret pleasure lost, Amidst the soft variety I'm lost." LEONARDO DA VINCI. There are several pictures by this master in the present exhibition; but you may look here in vain for the portrait of _La Gioconda_, which he employed four years in painting, and in which he has imitated nature so closely, that, as a well-known author has observed, "the eyes have all the lustre of life, the hairs of the eye brows and lids seem real, and even the pores of the skin are perceptible." This celebrated picture is now removed to the palace of the _Tuileries_; but the following one, which remains, is an admirable performance. N° ( ) _Portrait of Charles VIII._ FRA BARTOLOMEO. N° 28. (Saloon.) _St. Mark the Evangelist_. N° 29. (Saloon.) _The Saviour of the world_. These two pictures, which were in the _Pitti_ palace at Florence, give the idea of the most noble simplicity, and of no common taste in the distribution of the lights and shades. GIULIO ROMANO. N° 35. (Saloon.) _The Circumcision_. This picture belonged to the old collection of the crown. The figures in it are about a foot and a half in height. It is a real _chef d'oeuvre_, and has all the grace of the antique bas-reliefs. TIZIANO. N° 69. (Saloon.) _The Martyrdom of St. Peter_. This large picture, which presents a grand composition in colossal figures, with a country of extraordinary beauty in the back-ground, is considered as the _chef d'oeuvre_ of TITIAN. It was painted on pannel; but, having undergone the same operation as the _Madonna di Foligno_, is now placed on canvass, and is in such a state as to claim the admiration of succeeding ages. N° 74. (Saloon.) _The Portraits of Titian and his mistress._ 70. (Saloon.) _Portrait of the Marquis del Guasto with some ladies_. Both these pictures belonged to the old collection of the crown, and are to be admired for grace and beauty. N° 940. (Gallery.) _Christ crowned with thorns_. 941. (Gallery.) _Christ carried to the grave_. There is a wonderful vigour of colouring in these two capital pictures. The preceding are the most admirable of the productions which are at present exhibited of this inimitable master, the first of painters for truth of colouring. CORREGGIO. N° 753. (Gallery.) _The Virgin, the infant Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and St. Jerome._