among the Antients, 1 99 



Pindar im'mortalized them by his poems*, la order to di- 

 stinguish themselves, kin':;S, cities, and some rich indivi- 

 duals, \\ ho had gained prizes ra the Olympic games, caused 

 ihemselves to be represented in a car of bronze drawn by 

 two or four horses of the same nictal. 



This new branch of luxury exercised and favoured the 

 rising talents of the statuaries : by degrees the art of found- 

 ing rose to the hiiihust pefection, and the reno\yn of the 

 artists far surpassed thai of the candidates in the race, or 

 the athlelse whom they n'presented. It will not be extra- 

 neous to enumerate here those who distinguished themselves 

 in tlie art of making horses and chariots of bronze. 



Account of Ike ctlehraled Sculptors who havejounded Bronze 

 Horses and Qiiadrigce, 



The most airtient we know is Glaucias, of rEginus ; he 

 flourished in the 7 2d Olympiad \, and made a car with four 

 horses, with which Gelon, king of Syracuse, ornamented 

 the wood of Allis, near Olympia, for having carried off the 

 prize in the race. 



Onatas of yEginus, and Calamides, cotemporaries of 

 Glaucias, both laboured at a chariot w ith four horses, which 

 king Gelon, brother and successor of Hieron, erected at 

 Olympia for having obtained a similar victory. These two 

 chariots were still in th'-'ir place at the time of Pausanias, 

 V'ho wrote in the reign of Marcus Aurelius. 



Polycletes J perfected the art invented by Phidias. His 

 human statues were almost all placed in such a inanner, 

 that one of the two feet alwavs supported the whole weight 

 of the body, and the other foot seemed at ease : by this im- 

 provement his works had less regularity and more grace. 



• Pindar sold his poems at a very lii^h price. One Pytlieas having carried 

 oir tlic prize of PaiicrKce at the Nemcaii frames, his fellow citizens, wlio 

 shared his glory, were divided upon the question wiicthcr to erect a statue tu 

 the juvenile victor, or to employ the same expense in order to celebrate liis 

 victory by a poem of Pindar's. The latter altern;'.:ive was adopted ; and 

 Pindar, hiplily gratified with this prsfcrcnce, begins his fiftli Nemean ode 

 with cxprc»s.ing liis sense of the honour thus conferred upon him. 



t -iW years before the vulgar a;ra. 



t 87lh Olympiad, -IJO years before the vulgar itra. 



N 4 Never' 



