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A even living horfesindeed: for perceiving thathisconcurrents were in favor too mightte for him, 
and that they were like to carrie away the prize by corrupting the judges and umpiers, he cated 
living horiesto be brought into the place ; and when he had prefented before them the pictures © 
of his concurrents horfes one by one,they feemed notto joy nor make roward theim:but no foo- 
nerhad he {hewed * that of his owne pourtraying but they fell all to neigh, as taking it for one * “7. high 
of theirfellows; which experiment ferved ever after for a rule, toknow indeeda good peece of | P: chat 
workmanihip in that kind. Moreover, hee made a picture reprefenting Nesptolemus the fonne mare. 
of Achilles, in habit of aman of atmes, fitting on horfebacke and riding again the Pesfans: 
likewife another, refembling 4rchelaws with his wife and little daughter: allo king tigen ar- 
med before with a cuirace, and marching on foot with his horle ot fervice led by him. Howbeie 
B thofepainters that are counted more skilfull and cunning than others, preferre before allother 
pecces of his workemanthip, one picture of the fame king fitting upon hishorfe;and another 
which doth repretent the goddefle Diana, among a confort or companie of other virginsat fa- 
ctifice; wnome he depainted fo artificially in this table, that he feemerth to have farmounted 4o- 
mer the Poét, whoeftfoons in his poéms deferibeth the faid maiden Dsaza with her traine of 
young damofels, VWhat would you have more ? hee would feeme to pourtray thofe things which 
indéed cannot bee pouttraied, cracks of thunder, leames or flathes of lightning, and thunder- 
bolts;all which pictures goe under the name of Brontes, Aflrape, and Cerauncbaios : his inventi- 
ons ferved as precedents and patterns for others in that artto follow, One fecret hee had him- 
_ feife, which no maa was ever able to attaine and reach unto, and that was a certaine blacke ver- 
C_ nifhwhich he ufed to lay upon his painted tables whien he had finifhed them ; which was fo finely 
tempered, and withall driven upon the worke fo thin, that by the repercuffion thereof it gave an 
excellent gloffeand pleafant luftre to the colours: the fame alfo prefervedthe picture from daft 
and filthineffe: and yet a man could not perceive any {uch ching ac all, unlefle hee beldthe ta- 
bie clofe at hand, and looked verieneare. And great reafon hee had befides to ufe this vernifhy 
nainely, leaft che brightnefle of the colours without it, might offend and dazle the eyes, which 
now vehield them as it were afarre off through a glaffe- ftone; and withall, the fame gave afecret 
deeping and fadnefie to thofe colours which were too gay and gallant. And thus much may fuf- 
fice Sor Apelles, — 
In his timelived 4viftides the Thebane, a famous painter. This 4yi/fides was the firft that 
D wouldfeemeto paint the conceptions of the mind, andto expreffe all the inward difpofitions 
_ andactions thereof, which the Greeks cal] Ethe: yea the verie perturbations and paffions of che 
foule he reprefented in pire: howbeit,his colours were unp!eafaut and fomwhat too harfh.He 
reprefented in a table che winning of a cowne by foree,wherein was pourtraied moft lively a little 
infant winding it felfe and making prettie means to erecpe unto the mothers pap, who lay a dy- 
ing upon a mortall wound received inher breaft ; bur it paffed how naturally the poore wontans 
afeGion was exprefled in this picture; fora man might perceive in her,veriefentibly,acertaine 
fympathie and tender affection yer, unto her babe, albcit fhee were now in hex deadly pangs and 
going out of the world , fearing eventhen, leaftthe child fhould meet with no milke when thee 
was dead, butin ftead of fucking it fall to licke her bloud, and doe ir {elie hurt and injurie: This 
E paintedtabieK, Adcxander the Great tranflated from Thebes to Peila,the cittie where himfelfe 
was borne. Lie fame Arifiides painted the counterfeit of a batraile betweene the Greeks and the 
Perfians: inwhich table, hee comprifed an hundred fighting men:his bargaine was to have of 
Dinafoa the tyrant or K. of Elate for everie perfonage that he made * ten pounds of filver. Hee « ats, 
_pourtraied the running in a race of charriots drawne with foure fteeds,fo lively, that aman would 
have thought he faw the wheelsturning about. Andasforan humble finer ot foppliant, hee de- 
painted him fo naturally, making his petition and following it with fuch earneftneffe,that he fee- 
med in maner to crie with an audible yoicefrom the verie picture. He counterfeited in a painted 
table, hunters with cheirvenifon that they had taken: Leostion aifothe painter: anda woman un- 
dezthename of Anapauomenc, dying for kind heart and the love of her brother :likewile prince 
F Bchws,and\adie Ariadne his wife which be pictures much looked uponat Rome in thefe daies 
within the temple of Ceres : a plaier befidesjn atcagoedie, accompanied with aboy (and thefe are 
to befeen in the chappell of Apollo) howbeit,this table hath loftallthe beautie which it firft had, 
through the follie of an vnskilfull painter, unto whom it was put forth to be {coured and refre- 
Shed,by AA luniys the Pretor,againtk the folemnitie oft Apollinar games.Moreover,there was 
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