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Of all whites,they had the white Tripoli of Melos : for yellow ochres,they tocke that of Ackens: G 
for reds,they fought no farcherthan to the red ochre or Sinopieruddlein Pontys:&theirblack = 
was no other chan ordinarie vitrioll or fhoemakers blacke. Aand now adaies when wee have fuch 
plentie of purples that the very wals of our houfes pe painted all over therewith,when there com- 
meth from India {tore enough not only of Indico,which the mud oftheir rivers doth yeeld,bur 
alfo of cinnambre, which is the mixed blond of their fell dragons and mightie elephants, yera- 
mong all our moderne pictures we cannot fhew one faite peece of worke :infomuch as we may 
conclude, All things were donebetter then, notwithftanding the fcarfitie that was of ftuffeand 
matter. Butto fay a truth, the reafon is, Given we are now (as I have oftentimes faid) toefteeme 
of things thatbe rich and coftly, never regarding the art that isemploied about them. And here 
Icthinke ic not amiffe to fet downe the outrageous excefle of this age, astouching pictures: Nevo 
che Emperour commaunded,that the pourtraiét of himfelfe fhould bee painted.in linnén cloth, 
after the manner of a pyantlike colofic, 120 foot high ;a thing that never had been heard or 
feene before. But fee what became of it? when this monftrous picture (whichwasdrawneand 
made in the garden of Marius)was done and finifhed,the eee and fire from heaven caught j 
it,and not onely confumed it, but alfo burnt withall the beft part of the building about the gar- 
den, A flave of his enfranchifing (as it is well knowne)when he was to exhibit at Antium cerrain 
folemnities, and namely a fpeétacle of fword-fencers fighting at fharpe, caufed all the fcatfalds, 
publicke galleries,and walking- places of thatcittie,to be hung and tapifled with painted cloths, ~ 
wherein were reprefented the lively piGtures of the {word-plaiers themf{elves,togither with all the 
wilflers and fervitors to them belonging. Butto conclude,the beftmen andmoftmagnanimous J 
that for many a hundred yeers our countrey hath bred, have taken delight (Imuft needs fay) in © 
this art,and fet their minds upon good pictures. But to pourtraic in imagerie tables, and pain- 
ted cloth, the publicke fhews of fencers and {word-players,and to fet them up to be {een in open 
place to the view of the world,began by C. Terentizs a Lucan: for thisman, to doe honour unto 
his grandfather who had made him his ownefonne by adoption, exhibited a thew for threedaies 
togither of thirtie paite of fuch fencers fighting with unrebated {words: and a faire painted ta- 
ble which carried the lively refemblance of this fpe€tacle, he fet up and dedicated within the fa- 
cred groveot Diana, 
Crap. Virl . K 
This argumét at ich felavat : 
ortitle reach ee The antiquitie of Painting, andthe feverall ages wherein the famous Painters 
ne caret lived. A furvey of excellent Pictures, and the artificers that made 
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feiica, i shem, togither with the prices that their workman- 
Jhip was valued at : and notable pidtures 
to the number of 305. 
Ow will I after acurforie fort, run through all the famous profeffours and artizans in this 
i kind, and that with as great brevitie as poifibly I can; for the {cope that I have propofed 
to my felfc,tendeth rather another way :and therefore Jet nor the reader thinke much if I 
doe but touch the names of fome, as it were paffing by, and by occafion of others whofe cata- 
logue 1 meane to deliver. Howbeit,in making this haft, my purpofe is not to omitany excellent 
peece of worke which is worth the remembrance and relation, whether the fame be extant atthis 
day, or loft and perifhed. Where | mult advertife the readers, that inthis argument my mea- 
ning is notto ftand much upon the authoritie of Greeke writers, who indeed deliver nocerti- - 
tude, noragree in their recordsas touching this point (notwithftanding thatthey would feeme 
diligent in that behalf¢) andnamely, in that they have written, That the excellent painters flouri- 
fhed fo many Olympiads after the famous Imageurs;and have nominated for the firft & chiefe 
. to have lived in name, about the time of the 90 Olympiad : whereas thisis for certaine reported, 
that PLidias himfelfe was a painter at the beginning, and that the noble thield of Méizervain A- 
thens was by him painted: befides,this is confefled andrefolved upon fora truth, that Panaws his 
brother lived in the 83 Olympias, and painted the infide of thefaid fhield; who alfo in another 
{cutcheon of Minerva, which Colores the apprentice of Phrdias had made ;as alfoin making the _ 
ftatue of Jupiter Olympiws wrought with thefaid Colores and helped him. But what fhould I dwell — 
long in this matter? Is there any doubt made, that Candawles K.of Lydia,the laft of the race _ 
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