among the Ancients. 535 



merit in modern times : * that what we fhould 

 term gentlemen-artifts were frequent with them:f 

 that many treatifes were publifhed on the art 

 itfelf, and the various branches of it: J that the 

 expreffions of the ancient connoifleurs evince 

 much theoretical and technical knowledge of 

 the art, and difplay a diftribution of its parts 



almoft 



• This feems evidently to have been the cafe with 

 Zeuxis, Apelles, Protogenes, and fome other of the great 

 painters, the price of whofe performances would now 

 be deemed enormous ; one of Apelles* paintings for in- 

 llance brought him twenty golden talents ; upwards of 

 fifty thoufand pounds. Pliny, in his account of 

 Protogenes, mentions that when Demetrius befieged 

 Rhodes, he gave orders to his troops to take care that 

 Protogenes was not molefted, faying, he made war not with 

 the arts, but with the Rhodians. 



f Jpud Romanes quoque honos mature huic arti contigit, l^c. 

 he proceeds to enumerate feveral perfons of note who had 

 formerly been painters. See. alfo XXXV. 9. and XXXV. 

 36. § 9. In XXXV. 40. is an enumeration of female 

 painters. 



X Hanc ei (Farrhafio) gloriam concejfere Anligonus et 

 Zinocrates qui de piSluris /crip/ere. Plin. XXXV. 36. 

 Antigonus wrote ist^i 'ssivaKm. (De Tabulis), Diog' Laert, 

 in Chryfeppo, p. 209. Nicias, the painter, appears alfo to 

 have written on the fubjeft : 'ii\zi3i% fcripjtt fe itiuJJiJJTe i tali 

 enim u/us eji •verba. Plin. XXXV. 10. Euxenidas, Ibid. 

 XXXV. 36. § 9. Pamphilus of Macedon in piSlura omnibus 

 Uteris eruditus pracipue arithmetic} et geometric} Jine quibus 

 negabat artem perfici pojfe. Docuit neminem minoris talentn 

 annuo. The fubfequent part of the paffage affords ftrong 

 M m 4 proof 



