^g6 On the Art of Painting 



been common for painters to attend to thcfc, 

 and alfo for fculptors of the firft reputation to 

 pradtife painting. Thus Phidias* was originally 

 a painter: Callimachusf was a painter: Praxite- 

 les and LyfippusJ are mentioned among the 

 inventors of encauftic painting. — All thefe were 

 ftatuaries of the very firft eminence. 



Euphranor modelled and made figures of por- 

 celain ; he was a fculptor alfo on marble :|| Pro- 

 togenes caft in brafs:§ fo did Eutiches :^ Poly- 

 gnotus, Lefbocles, Prodorus and Pythodicus 

 who were painters of note (particularly the firft) 

 did the fame ; they appear alfo to have pradifed 

 embofling upon filver** (calatura.) From this 

 •fafhionable degree of general attention, in all 

 probability, arofe that diffufion, among the an- 

 cient artifts, of eafe and corredlnefs of defign fo 

 frequent in their remaining performances, and fo 



* XXXV. 34. t XXXIV. 19. 



X XXXV. 39. It is not indeed quite certain wHether 

 thefe were the fame perfons fo famous as fculptors, but 

 from the fimilarity of name and the commonnefs of the 

 circumllance, it is highly probable. 



it Plin. XXXV. 40. § XXXIV. 19. and XXXV. 35. 

 «T XXXV. 40. *• XXXIV. 19. 



confpicuous 



