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Digitized by Google 152 TREATISE (TN THE The great earthquake is assigned by some as the cause of this backwardness : fifty-five years have elapsed since that event without witnessing any material advancement in the arts! Mechanism of all sorts is but ill adapted and roughly finished ; mathematical and op- tical instruments, except such as arrive in a finished state from England, are rarely, if ever, to be met with ; watches, clocks, and time- pieces are imported in like manner from Eng- land, ...France, and Italy, Sculpture produces only rude imitations of the Italian school. In the churches and con- vents, so profusely adorned with the images of our Saviour, the Virgin, and a whole pha- lanx of saints, a tolerable statue is rarely to be met with.
Painting is still farther in the back ground ; there are no public exhibitions, nor academies for the study of this useful as well as pleasing art. During a residence in Lisbon of four months, although I made diligent search, I was not enabled to find a single native artist of merit, or a collection of pictures the pro- duce of their own united abilities.
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Digitized by Google 152 TREATISE (TN THE The great earthquake is assigned by some as the cause of this backwardness : fifty-five years have elapsed since that event without witnessing any material advancement in the arts! Mechanism of all sorts is but ill adapted and roughly finished ; mathematical and op- tical instruments, except such as arrive in a finished state from England, are rarely, if ever, to be met with ; watches, clocks, and time- pieces are imported in like manner from Eng- land, ...France, and Italy, Sculpture produces only rude imitations of the Italian school. In the churches and con- vents, so profusely adorned with the images of our Saviour, the Virgin, and a whole pha- lanx of saints, a tolerable statue is rarely to be met with.
Painting is still farther in the back ground ; there are no public exhibitions, nor academies for the study of this useful as well as pleasing art. During a residence in Lisbon of four months, although I made diligent search, I was not enabled to find a single native artist of merit, or a collection of pictures the pro- duce of their own united abilities.
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