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which Claudius Pulcher exhibited at Rone, the 

 painted clothes about the stage and theatre (which 

 represented building), brought this art into great ad- 

 miration ; for the workmanship was so artificial! and 

 liuely, that the very rauens in the aire, deceived with 

 the likenesse of houses, flew thither apace, for to set- 

 tle thereupon, supposing, verily, these had been tiles 

 and roofs indeed." 



Of the Grecian painters, and " notable pictures 

 to the number of 305," Pliny gives a most interest- 

 ing account. " Cimon the Cleonsean first deuised 

 the works called Catagrapha, L e. pourtraits and 

 images standing byassed and sidelong, the sundry ha- 

 bits, also, of the visage and cast of the eie, making them 

 to look, some backward ouer their shoulder, others 

 aloft, and some againe downward. His cunning it 

 was to shew in a picture, the knitting of the mem- 

 bers in every ioint ; to make the veines appeare how 

 they branched and spread ; and besides, the first he 

 was that counterfeited in flat pictures the plaits, 

 folds, wrinckles, and hollow lappets of the garment. 

 Phinseus, the brother of Phidias, it was that painted 

 the battel betweene the Athenians and Persians vpon 

 the plains of Marathon. Polygnotus the Thasian 

 was the first that painted women in gay and light 

 apparell, with their hoods and other head attire of 

 sundry colours. His inuention it was to paint images 

 with their mouths open, to make them shew their 

 teeth ; and, in one word, represented such varietie of 

 countenance, far different from the rigid and heauy 



