536 On the Art of Fainting 



almoft as minute, complete and fcientiHc, as 

 the prefent Hate of it can boaft,* 



When Plutarch, therefore, relating the dif- 

 pute of the two painters, Parrhafius and Euphra- 

 norj tells us that Euphranor objeded to his 

 rival, that the Thefeus painted by Parrhafius, 

 looked as if he had been fed with rofes, while 

 his own feemed fed on flefh : j- and when 



proof of the high eftimation in which the art was holden. 

 Plin. ub. fup. Apelles piSlura folus prope quam cteteri omnu 

 contulit ; volumimbus etiam edit is qua doSlrinam earn continent, 

 uh. fup. Euphranor Ifthmius <voIumina quoque compofuit de 

 fymmetria et coloribus. lb. XXXV. 40. Geminus, the Rho- 

 djan alfo, in Cicero's time, wrote on peripedlive. 



* It will appear from paflages introduced in illuftration 

 of the various parts of this effay that the ancient writers, in 

 fpeaking of painters, praife or blame them with evident 

 judgment and difcrimination : that they notice the feveral 

 fchools of painting : that they exprefsly mention and 

 remark upon the fcience of light and fhade; correftnefs of 

 outline; anatomical proportion; invention; expreffion ; 

 ordonnance or cornpofition ; relief; coutume ; perfpeftlve; 

 handling; tone of colouring; harmony of colouring; 

 foftnefs and mellownefs, and chalkinefs or hardnefs of 

 colouring ; that they praife Apelles in particular for 

 fobriety and chaftenefs of colouring, and inveigh againft 

 the oppofite fault; and thefe in appofite and technical' 

 cxpreiTiqps evidently exhibiting much knowledge of the 

 fubjeft. 



■\ Ev^favwf Tou 0w7{« Toy tauTit ra Tla^^oKTiH wof e?aXf Xeyav 



TOW (Alt EXEIVX fo3a ^£?fOKEVa(, TOV Jf taUJS H^iCt ^oEia. Plut. 



Bellone an pace clariores fueront Athenienfes. Webb, 85. 

 See alfo Plin. XXXV. 40. where the fame anecdote is 

 mentioned. " '■ 



Pliny 



