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of Plinies Naturall HiGorie. 
A_ having beeneat frft by occupation buta poore tinker or a plainc brafier and copperfmith at the 
mioft,he began to take heart unto him,and to proceed further, by a fpeech ot aniwere that Eupons- 
ps the painter gave him: for when he feemed to aske this painters counfell, VVhat patterne and 
whom hee were beft to follow of all thofe workemen that were gone before himehee fhewed unto 
him a multitude of people,and faid withall, That he thould doe beft co imitate Nature her felfe, 
and no one attificer :and that was it(quoth he)which I meant by the former demonfiration of fo 
many men.And verely,fo excellent a workeman hee prooved in the end, that he left behind him 
the moft peeces of any man,asI have {aid before,and thofe of all forts, and fulleft of art & good 
workmanthip : and among the reft,animage ofa man,currying,rubbing,andicraping the iweat 
and filth off his owne bodie; which 14. 4grippa caufed to be fet before his ownebaines : and the 
Emperour T7bcrivs Cefar tooke {o great pleafure in it,that notwith{tanding at his firft comming 
to thecrowne, he knew well ynough howto commaund and temper his owne affections, yet he 
could not now rule himfelfe, but would needs have the faidimage tobe removed from thence 
into his owne bed-chamber, and another to bee fetin the place of it : whereat the common 
people (fee their contumacie and frowardnefle!) were fo much offended and difpleafed ar it, 
that they refted not with open mouth toexclaime. upon him inall their Theatres, when they 
met there together, and cried for to have their Apoxyomenos fet againe in the owne places 
Infomuch,as the Emperour was content {o to doe, notwithftanding he loved it{o well. This Ly- 
fipp#s alfo woon greater credit and commendation by another image that hee made, reprefen- 
ting a woman piping or playing upon the flute,and drunken withall : alfo by a kenell of hounds, 
together with the huntfman & all belonging to the game.But above all,he gat che greareftname 
for making in brafle a chariot drawne with foure ficeds, together with the image of the Sunne; 
fo much honoured among the Rhodians. The perfonage ot king Alexander the Great hee like- 
wife exprefled in brafle,and many images he made of him, beginning atthe very childhood of 
the faid prince, And verely the Emperour Nero was fo greatly enamoured upon one image of 
Alexander shat hee commaundedit to be guildedall over: but afterwards, feeing that the more 
coft was beftowed upon it by laying on gold, the leffe was the art feenc of the firft workman, fo 
that it loft all the beautie and grace that ithad by that means, he caufed the gold tobe taken off 
againe :and verely the faid image thus unguilded asit was, feemed farremore precious than it 
_waswhiles it ftood fo enriched with gold, notwithftanding all the hackes, cuts, gafhes,and rafes 
all overthe bodie wherein the gold did fticke,remained ftill, which in fome fort might dishgure 
inOf this mans making was the ftatue of Hepheffion,a great favorit and minion of Alexander the 
Great;and yer fome afcribed this peece of worke unto Polycleiw : whereasin truth hee lived al- 
moft a hundred years before the {aid Hephe/tioz He counterfeited alfo Alexander the Great how 
he rid a hunting,with his hounds and all things belonging to the chafe : and this worke of his re- 
fembling hunting,was thought worthie to be confecrated in the temple of <pollo at Delphi. At 
Athenshe made atroupe of Satyres. Asfor Alexander himfelfe, with all his principall courtiers 
and friends about him,he refembled in braffe moftlively. Allthefe peeces of his workemanthip 
before rehearfed were tranfported toRome by Merellzs after the fubduing and conqueft of Ma- 
cedonie, Finally coaches drawne with foure horfes, he made of many forts and fafhions, all in 
= braffe. And in one word, the art of founderie and imagerie was brought to farre greater perfecti- 
_on by this artificer,as it was thought: for he expreffed the very haires of the head, as fine & {mall 
as Nature made them : the headsto the images of his making were nothing fo big in proporti- 
onto thereft of the bodie, as they were in old time: hisimages fhewed not fo grofle and corpu- 
lent but more lanke,flender, and leane ; as well to expreffe the knitting of joints,the ribs,veines, 
and finewes the better,as to caufe them alfo to feeme the taller. The Symmetrie,which above all 
things he obferved moft precifely in all his workes, is atearme that cannot properly be exprefled 
by a Latine word.A new devife he had that never before him any practifed,and that was,to make 
his images of a quatrie and {quare ftature,as the auncients before his time did: for an ordinarie 
fpeech it was of his, That in times paft men were made plaine, fuch asthey were: but hee made 
them asthey would feeme to be.Finally,itfeemeth,that this fingular gift he had above all others 
in all his workes, to fhew fineneffe and fubtiltie, which he obferved moft curionfly inthe {malleft 
things th’at paffed under his hand. When he died, he left behind him three fonnes,who alfo were 
his apprentifes: of whom, Labippws and Bedas were pafling good workmen, and very well regar- 
Acd; but Euthyerates his third {onne,overwent his brethren : although I muft needs fay me oF 
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