500 The foure and thirtieth Booke — 
Joved rather to follow his father in fuch workesas caried fome conftancie & majeftie with them, 
than any daintie gefture or curious elegancie, wherein his father excelled: and hee chole rather 
to employ his wit in expreffing fad,auftere,and grave perfonages, thanto beat his braine about 
pleafant and beautifull workes to pleafe and content the eye. And therefore the portrait of Her- 
éxites which is to be feene at Delphos within the remple of 4pol/o,he exprefled moft excellently: 
the ftatue alfo of king Alexander the Great was of his making, and is thought to be arare peece 
of worke : the hunter The/pés was of his making,a worke highly efteemed : like as the nine Mufes 
alfo.knowne by thename of The(piades.He reprefented alfo in brafle a skirmifh on horteback,re- 
fembling that Turnois which was performed at the Oracle of Iupiter Trophoniws:likewile the co- 
ches of queene Medea drawne with foure horfes, of which kind he made many: as alfo a horfe 
with panniers :and hunters hounds,as if there were a cri¢ of them. : 
Hee brought up under him one 7ificrates who alfo was a Sicyonian, buthee rather feemed to 
imitate Ly/ippus than his maifter Eathycrates,infomuch as many peeces of his making could bee 
hardly difcerned from thofe in the fame kind,which came out of Zy/ippzs hishand: as forexam- 
ple,the image of an old man refembling the habit of a Thebane;the pourtraitofking Demetrius, 
and of one Peuce/fes who faved the life of Alexander the Great; in which regard,hee deferved well } 
to beimmortalized by fo good a hand. BEN. ¥ 
Moreover, divers Linea there be who have written great volumes of fingular workmen in — 
imageurie, & they commend wonderfully one Telephanes a Phocean,whofe name otherwifehad 
been unknown,for that in Theffalie where he dwelt his works lay hidden and never came to light: { 
for in regard of his skill and fufficiencie,by all their voices equall hee wasto Polycletws, Myron, Yo” 
and Pythagoras. And tocomeunto particulars, they write much in the praife of his Zar: (/a,his 
Apollo, andone Spinariws, a notable wreftler, andwho had woon fevera!l prices in all the five 
kinds of maifteries and feats of activitie. And yet 1 am not ignorant, that{ome alledgeanother 
caufe of his obfcureneffe,and why he is no more talked of becaufe he was a fgeed workeman unto 
Xerxesand Dariws and devoted himfelfe wholly to their fervice,and had the worke of thofe two 
kings onely, ) 
As for Praxiteles his workmanfhip was morefeene in cutting of marble, and making images 
thereof\wherein he hada fingular grace and rare felicitie,and in which regard, his name was the 
greater. Yet he fhewed good proofe of his skill in founderie alfo.For there be moft beautifull caft 
images of braffe which hee made,to wit,the ravifhing of Proferpine by Pivio,a Spinfterfpinning, K 
which hee called Car.gu/ae : the image of drunkenneffe: god Bacchvs attended with one of the 
Satyres;a noble peece of work,and which, forthe great voice and bruit that went of it,the Greeks 
furnamed Pzrsbseres. The brafen images likewife which ftoodfomerimes in the forefront of the 
temple at Rome dedicated to Felseéty were of his making:as alfo the goddefle Yenws which when 
the chappell wherein the ftood ereéted,was burnt (during thereigne of Claudius Cafar the Ems 
peror) was melted ; anexquifit peece of worke, and comparable to that Venus of his cutting in 
marble,which all the world fpeaketh fo much of. He portraied alfo in brafle a woman making co- 
ronets and chaplets of flowers, which goeth under the name of Stepho/a:afoule oldtrotanda 
naftie,bearing the title of Spilamene : a carrier alfo of flaggons or wine-pots, knowne by the ad- 
dition of Oemophorus,He exprefled moreover in brafle and that moft lively, Harmediu:and Ari- Le 
fogiton maffacring the tyrant Péfiffratus: which images being with other pillage taken and cari- - 
ed away by Xerxesking of the Perfians,and recovered by king 4lexanaer the Great when he had 
conquered the kingdome of Perfis,the {aid prince and conqueror reftored to the Athenians,and ° 
*Some thinke fent them home to them againe, Furthermore,hee caft in brafie a * youth lying in wait with an 
7” meancth) arrow tokilla Lizard, which was readie to creepe clofe unto him and to {ting ; which peece of 
Is of Apollo. : i ; z . ; 
worke he tearmed Saurocfonus, Two imagesthere are befides of his making, which people take 
much pleafure to behold,and thofe in countenance fhew divers affe€tions; to wit,a fobre matron 
weeping, and alight courtifan fmirking: [tis thought thatthis courtifan was his own {weet heart 
Phiyne sot men do note both (in the curious workmanfhip of the artificer)the love ofhimwhich + _ 
fancied her,and alfo(in the pleafant countenance of the harlor)thé contentment thatfhetookby M 
receiving het hire, 1 bere is an image alfo of his making,which doth exprefle his own benignitie 
and bountiful] mincsforto acoach of Calamss his doing drawn with foure horfes,he fet a coach- 
man of his owne handyworke: and why ?becaufethe pofteritie another day fhould not thinke, 
shat Caéanees having donefo wel in portraying the hotles, failed of the like cunning in ae , 
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