548 Oh the Art of Tainting 



far as I can find do any one of them appear to exhi- 

 bit indications that this branch of painting was 

 either fo well known or fo much in vogue among 

 the ancient artifts, as to render the praftice of 

 it common among the performances of inferior 

 painters, or fuch as were in common demand. 



It muft alfo be confefled that many of the 

 paflages ufually adduced by the admirers of the 

 ancients, as proofs of their knowledge in this 

 refped, cannot fairly be taken as implying more 

 than the fliading neceflary to give life and relief 

 to fingle figures. Thefe paflages, however, it 

 will be proper to cite, becaufe, although they 

 do not weigh much with me, others may deem 

 them of more importance, and they will add 

 to the mafs of authorities refpeding the ftate of 

 the art of painting among the ancients. 



Cicero, fpeaking of eloquence, fays, Sedhaheat 

 tamen ilia in dicendo admiratio ac Jumma laus umbram 

 aliquam et recejfum quo magis id quod erit illuminatum 

 extare atque eminere videaiur.* 



Pliny f;ays of a Jupiter, by Apelles, f Digiti 

 eminere videntur et fulmen extra tabulam ejfe : and of 

 Nicias,J lumen atque umbras cujiodivity atque ut 

 eminerent e tabulis p£fura maxime curavit. In this 

 pafiage indeed it might be doubted, whether the 

 firft fentence does not mean more than mere 

 relief, efpecially as this is mentioned afterward. 



* De Orat. lib. III. f XXXV. 35. 



t XXXV. 40. 



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