"LANZI'S HISTORY OF PAINTING HAS LONG AND JUSTLY ENJOYED THE HIGHEST REPUTATION UPON THE CONTINENT. From 1795 to the present time, (during which period a considerable number of editions have appeared) it has increased in fame, and widened its circle, as a WORK OF GREAT ORIGINAL TALENT ON THE GENERAL SUBJECT OF THE FINE ARTS, AND ONE OF MUCH AUTHORITY FOR REFERENCE. Altogether, the Arts owe a debt of the deepest gratitude to the man, with whom Mr. Roscoe has, by this excellent translation, put it in the power of every English reader to become familiarly acquainted. And we will say, that in so doing he has enabled them to enjoy a very great pleasure. Unlike the majority of works upon Science or Art, Lanzi has contrived to render his work at once FULL OF INTERESTING INFORMATION AND AGREEABLE INCIDENT. There is nothing dry about the narrative; but, on the contrary, it seems to us that NO ONE WHO EVER ADMIRED A FINE PICTURE, CAN TURN OVER A PAGE OF THIS PUBLICATION WITHOUT BEING ATTRACTED TO PROCEED, and without feeling an increase of appetite grow with what it feeds on. In truth, WE ARE OURSELVES SO DELIGHTED WITH THE HISTORY, that we do not exaggerate our opinion of its merits, when we transcribe as our own the panegyric of the Cavalier Boni, already alluded to. (_See Lit. Gat. No. 567._) It is, however, difficult to convey a just idea of a work composed upon so enlarged and complete a scale; which embraces a period of about six centuries, and fourteen Italian schools, but treated with such rapidity and precision, as to form in itself a compendium of whatever we meet with in so many volumes of guides, catalogues, descriptions of churches and palaces, and in so many lives of artists, throughout the whole of Italy." FROM THE MONTHLY REVIEW.