new favourite. Before he had attained his twentieth year, he had finished a group of Apollo and Daphne (in the Villa Borghese) of a natural size, of which so general and unbounded was the admiration, that the fame of M. Angelo was lost in a total eclipse. The public taste was captivated by this novel style +. Twisted attitudes, heads turned with a meretricious grace, incorrectly formed limbs, but loaded with flying or protruding folds of drapery, which at once exposed the want of skill in the Artist, and the solidity of the material on which his talents were employed; these were the charms by which the Roman connoisseurs, with Pope Urban at their head, were rendered insensible of former excellence, and indulged all the foolish prejudice of depreciating the examples they had before admired.

The

Not satisfied with other innovations, he introduced one in his designs for basso-relievos. He filled them up with buildings in perspective, clouds, water, diminished figures and attempts to represent such aërial effects, as confound or break down the boundaries of the two arts. Reynolds observes, (Disc.X.) that "his heart was so much set on overcoming this difficulty, that he was for ever attempting it, though by that attempt he risked every thing that was valuable in the Arts." Grand Fountain in the Piazza Navona, confirmed the increasing reputation of Bernini. When Innocent X. first saw the plan, he exclaimed, "that it was impossible to see any designs of Bernini, without immediately ordering their execution." Having completely finished his work, his patron was invited to inspect it, and the approbation of this old Pope was insured by the following theatrical effect. A considerable time was allowed him to examine every part of this vast édifice of sculpture, which, as the rivulet which supplies it was not flowing, was not yet become a fountain. Upon his Holiness preparing to depart, the waters were suffered to rush into the basin, with incredible force and quantity; which circum

stance so surprized and delighted him, that he assured Bernini," that ten years would be added to his life by so unexpected a pleasure."

Louis XIV. invited Bernini into France, by a letter written with his own hand, who obeyed the summons with pretended disinclination. He was conducted by the French Ambassador, complimented with a triumphal entry into Florence; and upon his arrival at Paris was so candid or cunning, that he declined any engagement in works of architecture or sculpture, probably from a consciousness that admirers were not predisposed to him as at Rome. He declared, "that France had no occasion for the display of his talents, while she possessed a Perrault or a Puget" for those who have preserved this anecdote, have ascribed the compliment both to the architect and sculptor. We cannot wonder that he would not come to England, though solicited by Lord Arundel, who wished to have purchased his Fountain of the Piazza Navona, or to have engaged him to repeat it. He remained in France eight months, rewarded by an ample pension; and upon his return, in proof of gratitude, he cast an equestrian statue of Louis XIV. for the Palace of Versailles. He first introduced an obelisk as the back ground of his mo numents. Few more extravagant examples of his conceit can be adduced than that upon the discovery of a fragment of an Obelisk at Rome. He mounted it on the back of a bronze elephant, as it now stands in the area before the Church of Santa Maria sopra. Minerva.

Bernini was skilful in setting off his own works as an architect, in the Church of the Dioclesian.

The false taste disseminated by the disciples of Bernini, influenced the Art of Sculpture in every country of Europe, during the lapse of nearly two centuries. The second French school of Puget and Bouchardon were ambitious of imitating him; and in our own nation, Sculpture, which was demanded ouly for sepulchral monuments, was supplied by foreign Artists, with a very few exceptions.

Bernini's manner was so contrary to the antique, that it may almost serve as a negative definition of it.

So servilely was heimitated for nearly a century after his death, that those

works which belong to his school have not been of sufficient merit to preserve the names of their several Artists. Sculptors received small encouragement from the Popes or Roman nobility, during the latter half of the last century, for any of their own performances; because their talents were solely directed to the restoration of Statues, with which every fresh excavation supplied them in abundance. It is said that during the pontificate of Pius VI. not less than 2000 statues and fragments were brought to light, restored, named, and placed in the Pio-Clementine Museum, or dispersed among the various Cabinets in Europe.

From this general censure, several of the works of Camillo Rusconi deserve to be excepted. Being a man of superior genius, be disdained to imitate the prevailing mode of design, and none of his contemporaries approached so nearly to the antique. His attitudes are animated, and his expression of the passions learned and successful. He had the art of blend ing happily the correctness and taste of the antients, with the dramatic fire of the moderns. Yet, during his life time, his admirers were few. (To be continued.)

Extracts from SMYTHE'S MS "History of the Berkeley Family."

Account of Lady KATHARINE BERKELEY *; continued from vol. LXXXVI. Part 11. p. 212.

A DECLARATION of the Funeral of the Lady Katherine Berkeley, as it was performed on Thursday, the 20th of May, 1596, being Ascension-day.

"Her corpse having continued at Callowdon, in the chamber where she died, honoured with all accustomed ceremonies as well by night as day, from Wednesday the seventh of April before, on which day she died, until the second evening before the funeral, when the coffin, with her whole body enclosed, was privately, by persons of good quality, conveyed by night to Coventry, to the house of Sampson Hopkins, in the end of +Carles-street, where, honoured with

*Daughter of Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, and wife of Henry 11th Lord Berkeley.

+ Perhaps Earls, for it is not very legible.

like ceremonies, it continued until the funeral hour, which was in manner following:

"The whole train (as travelled) from Callowdon, and other places, assembled by ten of the clock in the forenoon, were by Garter King at Arms, and Chester Herald, set in order, and directed then to proceed from the said house to the Church of St. Michael in this man

ner :

"First, went six of your principal yeomen, called the conductors of the train, in long black cloaks, with black staves in their bands, directed to conduct the train all the length of that street, to the Bar gates, and thence to CrossCheaping; and so through the North side of Trinity Church-yard, to the great West door of St. Michael's Church, both sides of which passage, near a quarter of a mile long, was impaled by many thousands of people, assembled to behold the honour thereof. Next after those conductors, in mourning gowns and Holland kerchiefs, came seventy poor women; then came thirty gentlemen's servants in black coats; then followed the, servants of gentlemen and esquires in black coats; next them, the servants of knights, in black cloaks also; then came your Lordship's yeomen, and after them your gentlemen, (all two by two,) with some of the Lady Strange's gentlemen interplaced with them, yours being 74, whereof myself went as one of her Secretaries; then the officers of your household, as clerk of the kitchen, gentleman of the horse, auditor, and steward, in their gowns and hoods, your steward bearing a white rod in his hand. Next behind the steward, came Mr. Henry Beamont, bearing the great banner of honour; after him followed the esquires, and chief gentlemen of the country, as Mr. Clement Fisher, Mr. William Cotton, Mr. Elmes, Mr. Fulke Butteris, young Mr. Beamont; then came your Lordship's chaplains; and after them, and next before the coffin, went Chester the herald, assisted by Mr. Walter Denis, as a necessary marshal to the better direction of the train; the coffin was borne by eight of your chief gentlemen and yeomen, and supported by four other gentlemen of most note, viz. Master Edward Devereux, Sir John Spencer, Sir Thomas Leigh, and Mr. George Shirley, your son-in-law.

"Near to the four corners thereof went four esquires, viz. Mr. Robert Spencer, son and heir of the said Sir John, Mr. Basil Fielding of Newnham, Mr. Samuel Marrow, and Mr. William Nor wood, each of them bearing a banneroll, with her Arms and your Lordship's quartered.

"Next behind the coffin came Mr. Richard White as her gentleman usher, with a small white rod in his hand, accompanied with the gentleman usher of the Lady Strange, both of them bareheaded, between whom went Garter in his kingly coat of arms; next after them came the Lady Strange, eldest daughter to the late Earl of Derby, and for this day, principal mourneresse, in her gown, mantle, train, hood, and tippet of black, and in her paris head, tippet, wimple, vaile, and barbe of fine lawn, on whose right hand went your son, Mr. Thomas Berkeley, and on her left hand, your brother-in-law, Sir George Carey, supporting her by the arms, called the two principal assistants, who were apparelled in their gowns, hoods, and tippets of finest black. Then came Mrs. Audley Denis, bearing the train of the principal mourneresse, apparelled as an esquiresse, in her gown, and lined hood of black, with a plaited kerchief, and barb of lawn.

"Then came Mrs, Elizabeth Berkeley, your daughter-in-law, and the Lady Ca. rey, side by side, apparelled as Baronesses, and in all points suitable to the principal mourneresse, save that their trains were tucked up, and not borne. Then followed in semblable order, Mrs. Devereux, and the Lady Leigh, apparelled as knights' wives, in their black gowns, hoods, and tippets, and in their round paris heads, bonnegrace, and barbes of fine lawn.

"In answerable order, next came Mrs. Beamont and Mrs. Spencer, apparelled as knights' wives, like the former which seven' were called the seven principal mourneresses, and estates of the funeral.

"Next after whom in like correspondency, two by two, came four esquiresses, viz. Mrs. Fielding, Mrs. Fisher, and her daughter, and Mrs. Dilkes, apparelled as the train-bearer, save that they wanted hoods.

"Then followed the late Lady's gentlemen, the principal mourneresses two gentlewomen, knights and ́esquires wives gentlewomen, all like apparelled in black gowns, kerchiefs, and barbes of lawn, to the number of fourteen.

"And next after these, came eight chambermaids, servants to the estates and ladies aforesaid, in gowns and kerchiefs of lawn only: all which was furnished at the only charges of your Lordship.

"After all these, and last of all, came Mr. Mayor of Coventry, the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and Commons in great number, and good proportion.

In this order passed this train withe slow

slow steps, and frequent pauses, to the Church aforesaid. In the first aisle stood the foresaid 70 poor women, paling the passage on either side, through whom passed the whole action up to the East end of the Church, where the pulpit was purposely placed, and also the hearse.-The seven principal mourneresses were placed by Mr. Garter king at armes within the inward rail of the said hearse, with their faces towards the same, and the rest of the gentlemen ministers to the funeral were placed in the outer rails, about two yards distant from the pall of the coffin; all others sat in seats adjoining. The company thus placed, and the psalm ended, (which had received the corpse at the entrance into the Church); your chaplain, Edward Cowper, ascended the pulpit, and towards the end of bis learned sermon, took a fit occasion to speak of her learned and virtuous life; A lady, never known to dissemble, or heard to swear, with speech modestly carried,' sealed also with the knowledge of many hundreds there present, wrought such effect, that seldome hath been beheld a more sorrowful assembly at a subject's funeral, nor tears more dropping down. The sermon ended, another psalm was begun, during which, all such mourners as before are said to wear heads of lawn, together with the two assistants, walked in procession wise about the hearse; in which procession, the waiting gentlewomen and chambermaids were severed from the rest, and aptly seated on one side the aisle extend ing to the offertory, where they conti nued till all ceremonies were ended. But all the rest, by their circular walk, were seated in their former places; which done, the offertory began, first, by the principal mourneresses, and after, by the other six, each conducted by Mr. Garter; then were the banners offered up by such as formerly I have noted to bear them;

which finished, Mr. Berkeley, your eldest son, was, by Mr. Garter, led to the offertory, and there by him invested with the honours of his deceased mother, by delivery and acceptance of the banners, and other ceremonies; which done, and he solemnly conducted back to his former place, then were next brought before the hearse, the two principal officers of the household, the steward and gentleman usher, who after many obeisances and humble reverences, brake their rods, commending them to the custody of the corps and bearse; which ceremony ended, the whole company arose, and in the order they came, returned to Mr. Hopkins' house aforesaid, and thence to Callowdon, where

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"Thus the paper I delivered to this Lord. John Smith.

"Her body was after interred in a vault, in the North-east corner of that Church, near the Draper's Chapel there; and I think it hardly possible to have all things better performed than were at this funeral, and after at the feast, wherein no error was by any observed to be committed; so careful were the servants of this Lord in their several offices and charges committed to them, who also for more comeliness had attired themselves the gentlemen in black sattin suits, and black silk stockings, with gold chains, folded in black scarfes, and the yeomen in silk sashes, grograms, and taffeties of black colours.

Reliquet nomen, narrantur laudes.
"GOD grant us all such race to run,
To end in Christ as she has done."

Topographical Account of the Parish of TOTTINGTON, in Norfolk. OTTINGTON is a small irregular

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