200 Essay vpon the Art of the Foundry 



Nevertheless all his figures were robust (quadratae), and 

 rather had the appearance of strength than ot elegance. He 

 has been reproached with too much unifonriity in his man- 

 ner; one sintile statue gave an idea of all the rest*. He 

 was not acquainted with the art of making horses f. 



Myfon X liad more invention than Polyclctes, and his per- 

 formances had more diversity. His imagination, however, 

 was rather di^; laved in the difTerent attitudes of the body 

 than in the movcinents of the mind; he did not exprt-ss the 

 passions, and did not know how to make horses any more 

 than hiS predecessors. We have still a copy of his Diosco- 

 bulus. His statue of Leda, who had gained the prize of the 

 race in the Olympic games, was the subject of several epi- 

 grams which we find in the Greek Anthology §. 



Aristides, a statuary of the spth Olympiad, made some 

 quadrigas. Euphranor, of Corinth, was also celebrated in 

 this branch of workmanship ||. 



Hvpalodorus and Aristogiton were statuaries of the Athe- 

 nian school, and contemporaries with Praxiteles. They 

 made the chariot of Amphiarans, in which we see Laton, 

 his charioteer. This monument was in existence at Delphos 

 in the time of Pausanias. 



Calamisf, contemporary with Praxiteles, excelled in 

 moulding horses ; and no person disputed this talent with 

 him**. Praxiteles, on one occasion, n)ade for this artist 

 a leader for one of his chariots. Thus Poussin frequently 

 took pleasure in ornamenting the landscapes of Guaspre 

 with several figures. 



Lvsippus, of Sicyone, was contemporary with Alexan- 

 der ff. His fertile genius produced more works than any 



* Pliny, book xxxiv. ch. 8. Pene unum ad exemplum. 



f That is to sav, he succeeded less in this than in the other branches. 



) 87th Olympiad. 



§ Antholopia, book iv. 



II Pliny, lib. xxxv. ch. 14, 



^ 107th Olympiad. 



•* Equis si'wpfr xine uviulo exjjrcssis. Plin. Exactis Calamis se mihi jaitat 

 tijuis. Propert. Eleg. i. ver. 33 fnuUcat ut Calamis Laudcm i^uos JmU ec^uu- 

 rum. Ovid, de Ponto, lib. iv. 



•ff 1 1 4th Olympiad A. 320 before the vulgar ara. 



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