For Reynolds, Michelangelo was the 'Founder and Father of modern art' in Discourse Fifteen, 1790 ( Reynolds, Discourses, p. 272), and in Discourse Eleven, 1782, Giovanni Bellini is taken as an example of the old style which failed to give a true representation, 'because he finished every hair'( Reynolds, Discourses, p. 195). For Reynolds in Discourse One, 1769, what Michelangelo offered instead of 'minute accidental discriminations of particular and individual objects' characteristic of the style of Bellini and his predecessors was a grand style which 'improves partial representation by the general and invariable ideas of nature' ( Reynolds, Discourses, p. 15).