among the Ancients. 597 



confpicuous in their expreffion of the human 

 figure in particular. * 



Such are the principal fafts and obfervations 

 which I have been able to colleft concerning the 

 ftate of painting among the ancients. I have 

 found it impoffible to avoid crowding the page 

 with a multiplicity of quotations and references, 

 confidently with my defign of colle6ting, in a 

 fmall compafs, all the material fafts upon the 

 fubjeft, and advancing none but in conjundion 

 with the authority upon which it refts. Perhaps 

 the fociety will deem the utility fufficient to 

 compenfate for the apparent pedantry of the me- 

 thod I have adopted, more efpecially as it will 

 render it eafy for others to corred the miftakes 

 which I myfelf may have committed. 



• It feems from the preceding references to have been 

 common among the ancient painters to attend to each 

 branch of the imitative arts fo elegantly noticed in the 

 following paffage of Apuleius ; Enim vero quod luto fiftum 

 vel asre infufum, vel lapide incifum, vel cera inuftum, vel 

 pigment© illitum, vel alio quopiam humano artificio ad- 

 fimulatum Cadaveris ritu, unum vultum et immobilem 

 exprefGt. Apologia. 



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