514 On the Art of Tainting 



Philoftratus,* and Quintilian.f But it will be fevi- 

 dent from an attentive confideration of the paf- 

 fages themfelyes, and ftill more from the autho- 

 rities I am about to adduce, that this opinion is 

 true only with refped to the ancients nat' timwy 

 to thofe who were ftiled ancients in the days of 

 Cicero and Pliny, and not with refpeft to perfons 

 fo called in the writings or converfation of the 

 moderns, by whom Cicero and Pliny themfelves 

 are properly ranked among the ancients. 



It is fomewhat fingular alfo, that almoft all 

 thefe pafTages, either upon the face of them as 

 quoted, or with the addition of the fucceeding 

 fentences, in the original, manifeftly prove that 

 the ancient painters, cotemporary with thefe 

 authors, had a variety of colours in ufe. Thus in 

 the paflage from Cicero : " In their paintings, 

 fays he, " who ufed no more than four colours, 

 *' fuch as Zeuxis, Polygnotus, and Timantes, we 

 "admire the outline and the features; but in 

 " T^tion, Protogenes, Nicomachus and Apelles, 

 " all is perfeft," evidently including colouring, 



* tw h TiUy^apiav auTw, &c. PIfturam enim non earn 

 foluin videris putare quje colorlbus abfolvitur. Nempe 

 unus etiam color veteribus illis pidloribus fatis erat. In- 

 crementa vero capiens ars quatuor adhiberit ; inde plures 

 etiam; at et linearum pifturam, et quod coloribus defti- 

 tuitur, quod ex umbra et luce compofitum eft, pifturam 

 fas eft apellare. Philoft. Vit. Apoll. Tyan. lib. II. cap. 22. 

 Painiings in one colour only, were called Monochromata. - 



f Clari pidlores fuiffe dicuntur Polygnotus atque Aglao- 

 phon, quorum fimplex color fui ftudiofos adhuc habet. 

 TYvtJimplex color here, I think, does not mean merely Mono- 

 chromata. Lib. XII. (ap. 10. and 



