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that he thought it impomble to find in any one body all thofe 

 perfections which he fought for the accomplishment of a 

 Helena, becaufe Nature in any individual perfon makes nothing 

 that is perfed in all its parts. For this reafon Maximus Ty- 

 rius alfo fays, that the image which is taken by a Painter from 

 feveral bodies, produces a beauty, which it is impoffible to 

 find in any fingle natural body, approaching to the perfection 

 of the faireft ftitues. Thus Nature, on this account, is fo 

 much inferior to Art, that thofe Artifts who propofe to them- 

 felves only the imitation or likenefs of fuch or fuch a particu- 

 lar perfon, without election of thofe ideas before-mentioned, 

 have often been reproached for that omiffion. Demetrius was 

 taxed for being too natural ; Dionyiius was alfo blamed for 

 drawing men like us, and was commonly called 'Ar'6pw7ro>pa^@u, 

 that is, a Painter of Men. In our times, Michael Angelo da 

 Caravaggio was efieemed too natural : He drew perfons as 

 they were; and Bamboccio, and mod of the Dutch Painters., 

 have drawn the word likenefs. Lyfippus, of old, upbraided 

 the common fort of Sculptors for making men fuch as they 

 were found in Nature; and boafted of himfelf, that he made 

 them as they ought to be; which is a precept of Ariftotlc, 

 given as well to Poets as to Painters. Phidias raifed an admi- 

 ration even to aftonimment, in thofe who beheld his ftatues, 

 with the forms which he gave to his Gods and Heroes, by 

 imitating the Idea, rather than Nature ; and Cicero, fpeaking 

 of him, affirms, that figuring Jupiter and Pallas, he did not 

 contemplate any object from whence he took any likenefs, but 

 coniidered in his own mind a great and admirable form of 

 beauty, and according to that image in his foul, he directed 

 the operation of his hand. Seneca alfo feems to wonder that 

 Phidias, having never beheld either Jove or Pallas, yet could 

 conceive their divine images in his mind. Apollonius Tyanxus 



T 2 fays 



