-—  forhis skilland excellencie in art,than he was commended for his fimplicitie and finglenefle of 
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was Apelles. Thereisa fine picture of Expompus his making,to wit,one who had obtained the vi- 
Qorie atthe publicke Gymnicke exercifes of activiti¢, painted naked as hee performed his de- 
voire, holding in his hand the braunch of a Date tree. This Eupompus was of fuch authority,that 
whereas before his time there were but twokinds of PiGures, to wit,Helladicum .the Greekith; 
and Afiaticum,é.Afiaticke,he brought in a new devifion,and made three diftin€t members ther- 
of: for in love of him,becaufe he was a Sicyonian born, the forefaid Helladicum being parted in 
» gwaine,there arofe thefe three feverall forts the lonicke,Sicyonian,and the Articke, 
As for Pamphilus, renowned he was fos paintingaconfraternitie or kinred:the barrell fought 
before Phlius,and the victorie of the Athenians : femblably, of his making is the pidture of Vi- 
xes in a punt or {mall bottome. Himfelfe was a Macedonian borne, but of all painters, the firft 
that gave his mind to other good literature,and efpecially to Arithmetick and Geomewrie:with- 
out the infight of which two Sciences,hee was of opinion,thatunpoffible it wasto beea perfec 
painter.He taught none his cunning under a*talent of filver for renne yeares together : and thus Rice ee 
much paied 4pzllesand Melanthus unto him, forto learn his art. His authority brought to pafle, yer radeus rea- 
that ordained it was firft at Sicyone,and fo confequentlythroughoutall Greece,that gentlemens deth.annuis ra | 
fonnes and free borne fhould goe to painting fchoole, andthere bee taught firltabove all other @4esien | 
things the art Diagraphice,that is to fay,the skill to draw and paintin boxtables:and for the cre- yeare. : 
dit of pairters,he broughtto pafle, thatthe art thould beraunged in the firft degree of liberal 
Sciences. And verely,this craft of painting hath been alwaies of that good refpec and fo hono- 
noured thatnone but gentlemen and free borne at the firft beginning medled therwith,yea,and 
afterwards honourable perfonages gave themfelves to the practife therof;with this charge, from 
time to time, To teach no flave the myfterie of painting who bya ftrict and perpetual] edict were 
excluded from the benefit thereof.Neither hall you ever heare of any peéce either of picture ct 
gtaverie and emboffing that came out of afervile hand, 
Furthermore, about the hundred and feventh Olympias, there fourifhed Echion and Theri- 
sachus,ewo renowmed painters: As for Echtoz ennobled he is for thefe pictures, god Bacchus, a 
Tragoedie &a C omcedie,teprefented by painting; alfo Semiramis who of abond-maiden came 
to be a queene ; an auncient woman carrying atorch or lampe going before a yong wife new wed- 
ded,and leading her to the bride bed,who followeth with amodeft,yhamefatt and bafhfull coun- 
tenance,moft apparent to the eye. 
But what thould] fpeake of thefé painters,when as Apelles {urmounted all that either were be- 
fore orcame after. This 4pelles Aourifhed about the hundred and twelfth Olympias, by which - 
time hee became fo confummat and accomplifhed in the are,that hee alone did illuftrat and en- 
_ rich it as much,if not more,than all his predeceflours befides :who compiled alfo divers books, 
wherein the rules and principles, yea,and the very fecrets of the artare comprifed. The fpeciall 
gift that he had,wasthis,that he was able to give his pictures a certamelovely grace inimitable : 
and yet there were in his time moft famous and worthie painters whome hee adyaunced, whofe 
workes when he beheld, hee would praife them all, howbeit,not withoura but: for his ordinari¢ 
phrafe was this: Hereis an excellent picture, but chat it wanteth one thing,and that is the Venus 
which it fhould have: which Yew the Greekes call Charis, as one would fay the grace: And in 
truth,hee would confeffe, that other mens pictures had all things els thatthey fhould have, this 
onely excepted;wherein he was perfuaded that he had not his peere or fecond. Morcover,he ate 
tributed unto himfelfe another propertie, wherein hee gloried noc a litrle,and chat was this, that 
_hee could fee to make an end when athing was well done. For beholding wiftly upon a time a 
peece of worke of Protogenes his doing, wherein hee faw there was infinitpaines taken,admiring 
alfo the exceeding curiofitie of the man in each point beyond all meafure,hee confefled & faid; 
That Protogenes in every thing els had done as well as himfelfe could have done, yea, and better 
too.But in one thing he furpafled Pr oregenes,for that he could not skill of laying worke out of his 
hand,when it was finifhed wel] ynough: a memorable admonition, teaching usall, That double 
diligence and overmuch curiofitie,doth hurt otherwhiles. This painter wasnot more renowmed 
heart :foras he gave place to Amphion in difpofition,fo he yeelded to 4(clepiodorws in meafures 
and proportion, that isto fay,in the juft knowledge how farre diftant one thing ought tobe from 
another.And tothis purpofe,impertinent itis not to reporta pretie occurrent thatfell between 
Procogenes and him: for being very defirous to be acquainted with Protogenes, aman whom hes 
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