•6 Essay vpon the Art of the Foundry 



bouring islands of Chio, Delos, and Lesbos, were fullof 

 their works ; and in Chio was to be seen a Diana by Bii- 

 paliis. AH these sculptors made use of the beautiful marble 

 of Chio ; but we do not see that they wrought in bronze. 

 It would be pushinc; the mania for antiquities too far to pre- 

 tend to name the artist who made the horses of Chio; but 

 if the examination of a monument which time has spared, 

 added to the descriptions of those which antiently existed, 

 can still suffice fur distinguishing the difterent schools, such 

 an inquiry will not, perhaps, be without interest in the his- 

 tory of the arts. 



We must not imagine we see in these horses a chef 

 <3'oeuvre of anticnt art. So early as the time of Ciecro all 

 that was valuable in the island of Chio had been brought 

 to Rome in order to decorate the houses of the rich *. The 

 emissaries sent by Nero into Greece, in order to carry off all 

 the works in bronze thcv thought worthy of decorating his 

 edifices, although they did not neglect to visit the islands 

 of Rhodes, Samos, and Chio, yet tht-y did not meddle with 

 these horses ; nor were they comprised in the general requi- 

 sition made by Constantine of all the objects of art, which 

 might adorn bis new residence; it was only under Theo- 

 dosius II., when the world was already stripped of all the 

 chefs d'xEuvres, that they were thought worthy of being 

 transported to Constantinople. Would they have remained 

 GO long in their places; would they have escaped the rapacity 

 of the Roman governors, the depredations of Nero, and the 

 requisitions of Constantine, if their workmanship had been 

 fine enough to charm the eyes of connoisseurs, or to entitle 

 them to be compared to a work of Calamis, Lysippus, or 

 ^n artist of the school of this grand master? 



was very plain in his person, these two srulptors amused themselves p.t Iiis 

 expense, by exposip.g to public view a ridiculous caricature of him. Hippo- 

 riax, indignant at seeing himself the object cf the insolence of the public, made 

 a poem, and satirized them so unmercifully that they repented their tcmerit^ 

 in ridiculing the son of Apollo. It roust be observed that this Bupalus is nof 

 the same with him who flcurisfccd iii ;he 107th Olympiad, and wrought at tht 

 monument erected by Artemisia to Mausolus, aud whose works, brought to 

 Rome by order of Augustus., were thought worthy of being compared to (hose 

 pf Praxiteles., The grc^t distance in point of time is a proof of thjs, 

 * £eptimi|is Ve'TiiHis, cap. 48, 



LysippUS 



