AQ g ae foure and thirtieth Booke 
And thefé remaine to be feene in the court or portall belonging to the houfe of TifwstheEm- G 
perour, which is fuch an exquifit peece of worke, that many doe judge, there cannot bee fet ano- 
ther ro it more abfolure and perfec: alfo, he it was that wrought the image of CMercuze which 
is at Lyfimachia ; of Hercudes at Rome, and namely, how hee heaved and held up _4atews from 
the ground betweene heaven and earth: and the counterfeit of --4rtemon, that effeminat and 
wanton perfon, who becaufe he was ordinarily carried in a litter, men called Periphoretos. This 
x Polycietws was judged to have broughtthis art of Imagerie to.a confummat perfeCtion: the feat 
| alfo of engraving and emboffing, hee was thought to practife and promote; likeas Phidias be- 
fore him opened the way to it,and gave inftructions. This proper and fpeciall gift he had befides 
above all other, To devife howimages might {tand upon one leg :and yet Varrofaith,that all the 
images of his making, be foure f{quare, and all in manner after one patterne. H 
Tocomeunto Myro;bornehe was at Eleutherz,and an apprentice likewile to 4¢elades: the 
peece of worke that brought him into name and made him famous, was an heifer of brafle;by 
reafon that divers Poéts have in their verfes highly praifed it, and fpread the fingularitie thereof 
‘ abroad: forfo it falleth out otherwhiles, that many men are commended by the wit of others, 
more than by their owne. Other peeces of worke there were of his befides ; to wit, a dog, a coit- 
cafter(or one hurling a ftone or weight of lead) Perfews (killing Aedu/a, | {awyers called Prifte,a 
Satyre woondring ata pipe or flute,andthe goddefle Atmerva : moreover, the Delphicke Pen- 
tathli, and the Pancratiaftz : furthermore, that image of Hercules which ftandeth in the temple 
that Pompey erected, neare the greateft cirque or fhew-place, is the handyworke of Myro : over 
and befides, (as it appeareth by the poefie of Erinna the poétreffe) he it was that made the tomb 
or monument in braffe,ofa poore grafhopper and a locuft: the image likewife of pollo (which 
after that Astoniws the Triumvir had wrongfully taken from the Ephefians, 4ugu/ias Cafar refto- 
red againe unto them,being warned fo to doe by a vifion appearing unto him in his fleepe) was 
of Agro hismaking. This workeman feemeth to have been the firit that wrought not his images 
after one fort, but altered his worke after many fafhions, as being fuller of invention and given 
more to devife in his art, more curious alfo and precife in his fymentries and proportions, than 
Polycletus: And yetas exquifit as hee was, hee went no farther than to the outward lineaments of 
the bodie and members thereof; as for the inward affections of the mind, he did notexpreffe in 
any of his worke: the haire alfo as well of head,beard, as fhare, he left after a grofle manner, and, 
wrought them no finer than the rude and unexpert workemen in old time, had eitherdone or & 
taught. No marveile therefore if Pythagoras (the imageur of Rhegium in Italie) went bepend 
him io thisfeat, and namely in that peece of worke of his which refembled a wreftler or Pancra- 
tiaftes, which was dedicated in the temple of Apollo at Delphos. He came fhort alfo of Leontiws, 
who exprefled lively in brafle, 4/fy/os, the famous runner in a race ; which imageisfhewed fora 
rare pecce of worke in Olympia :alfo the boy Zibys, which isto be feene in the fame place, hol. 
ding in his handa little table, and withall carrying apples, ftarke naked. Heemadealfo the pour- 
traiture of one that feemed lame and to halt, upon fome ulcer; but the fame was fo lively andna- 
turally done, that as many as behold the fame, feeme to have a compaflion and fellow-feeling 
with him of {ome paine and grievance of his fore ;and thispeece of worke a man may feeat Sy- 
racufa, Furthermore, the faid Leowtis caftin brafle one Apollo playing upon his harpe; as alfo L 
another Apolio, and the ferpent killed with his arrows, which image he furnamed Dicevs,7,lutt; 
for that when the citie of Thebes was woon by Alexander the Great,the gold which hehid in the 
bofome thereof when hee fled, was found there fafe and not diminifhed, when the enemie was 
gone and he returned againe. He was the firft, that in his images exprefied the finews andveines _ 
lying under the skin; he it was alfo that couched and laid the haire of the head more handfomly, 
yea and wrought the fame far more finely than any before him. ! 
*sather, Pa. Nowbefides Pythagoras before mentioned, there was another a * Samian borne, whoby oc- 
riu of Paros. cypation,was atthe beginning a painter; of his handiworke are thofe feven images halfe naked, 
*Hyinfte dic, whichareto be feenein the temple of * This daies For/uneatRome;andonerefemblinganold 
man:all highly commended for fingular art. This Pyth2goras was {o like unto the other above- jy _ 
named, e{pecially in face and countenance, that hardly (by report) one ofthem could be known 
from the other. As touching Soffratus,it isfaid, hee was apprenticeto Pythagoras of Rhegium, 
and his fiftersfon befides. As for Ly/ippus of Sicyone, Darés faith, thathe learned the art by him- 
felfe,and never was taught by other: but 7 dls affirmeth, thathee wasapprentice unto it, and 
having : 
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