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of Plinies N aturall Hiftorie. 
This ftately Church of Zo queene, with piGtures richly dight; 
Whome wife to mightie Jupiter, and fifter,men doe call ; 
Commends the hand of Marke Ludie,Elotas alfo hight, 
_£tolian borne: whome Ardea doth praife, and ever fhall._. . 
Thefe verfes are written in antique Latine letters. By occafion of whofe name, Imuft not de- 
fraud another Ludivs of his due praife and commendation, who lived in the daies of Augu/hus 
Cafar Eimperour of happie memorie: for this Ludivs was hee who firft devifed to beautifie the 
‘wallsof an houfe with the pleafanteft painting that is in all varietie; to wit; with the refemblance 
of maniours,farms, and houfes of pleafure in the countrey, havens,vinets, floure- worke in knots, 
groves,woods,forrefts,hills,fifhpools,conduits, and drains, rivers, riverets with cheit banks,and 
whatfoever a man would with for to fee ‘wherein alfo hee would reprefentfundrie other fhews of 
people,fome walking and going too'and froon foot ;others, failing and rowing up and downé 
the ftream upon thewater; or elstiding by land to their farms, either mounted upon their mules 
andafles, or elsin waggons and coaches: there aman (hould fee folke, in this place fifhing and 
angling, in that place hawking and fouling: fome hunting here, the hare, the fox, or deere both 
red and fallow; others,bufte there, in harvgft or vintage.In this manner of painting a man fhould 
behold of his workemanthip, faire houfes ftanding among marithes, unto which all the wayes 
that lead, be ticklifh and full of bogsswhere you fhould fee the paths fo flipperie, that women as 
they goe are afraid to fet one foot afore another ; {ome at everie {tep readie toflide, others ben- 
ding forward with their heads, as though they carried fome burdens upon their neck and fhoul- 
ders,andall for feare leaft (their feet failing under them)they thould catcha fall :and a thoufand 
more devifesand prettie conceits as thefe,full of pleafure and delight. The fame Ludius devifed 
walls withouc-dores & abroad inthe open aire,to paint cities ftanding by thefea fide. All which 
kind of painting pleafeth the eye exceeding well, and is befides of little or no coft. Howbeit, nei- 
therhenor any artificers in thiskind(howfoever otherwife re{peGted) grew ever to be famous and 
of gteatname; that felicitie attained they only unto,who ufed to paint in tablessand therefore in 
thisregard venerable antiquitie we have in preater admiration:for painters in old time loved not 
to garnifh walls for to pleafure the mafter only of the houfe,ne yet to bedeck houfes in that man- 
net,which cannot ftir out of the place nor fhiftand fave themfelves when fire commeth;as pain- 
ted tables may, that are tobe remooved witheale. Protogenes,as excellent a painter as hee was, 
contented himfelfeto live within alittle gardenin a {mall cotrage,and I warrant you no part there 
ofwas painted, 4pelles himfelfe might well havethe walls of his houfe rough-caft or finely pla- 
ftered,but never a patch therofhad any paintings T hey tooke no pleafure,nay they had no lutt at 
all to paint upon the whole walls;and to work upon them from one end to another: all their skill 
‘and cunning attended upon the publick fervice of ftates and cities: and a painter was not for this 
or that place only, butemploied tor the good & benefit indifferently of all countries & nations. 
But to'returne again to our particular painters: there flourifhed at Rome alittlebefore ugu- 
fi Cafars daies,one Arellivs a cenowmed painter, but that he had one notable foule fault which 
matred all and difcredited his are; given he was exceedingly towenching,and {ure hee wouldbe 
to have one woman or other all times in chace: which wasthe reafon that hee loved a-lifeto bee 
painting of goddefles, and thofe were ever drawne by the patterne of his{weet-hearts whom he - 
courted: A man might know by his pictures howmany queanes he kept, and which were the mi- 
ftrefles or goddeffesrather, whom heeferved . Of late daies we had among us here atRome,one 
Amuliws.2 painter: he caried with him in his countenance and habit, gravitie and feveritie;how- 
beit,hie loved tomake gay & gallant pidures, neither fcorned he to paint the moft trifling toies 
and meaneft things that were: The pidture of Minerva was of hismaking,which feemeth to have 
hereyefull direGily upon you, looke which way foever you will upon her. Heé wrought butfome 
few hours of the day,and then would he feemeverie grave 8:ancient ;for you fhould never find 
him ouvof his gowne and long robe,but verie formall though he were clofe fetat worke & even 
Jockedas it were to hisframe, The golden houfe or pallace of Nero caught up all the workes that 
* hecould make,wherethey remained ast were in prifon & nevercame abroad : whichis the rea- 
fomthat none of his piétures els beextantsAfter him,fucceeded Cornelius Pinus, & A€tius Prif- 
cus wopaintersof good reputation, whopainted the temples of Honour and Vertue for Ve/pae 
fans Avgufivs che Emperour,when he caufedthem to be reedified: but of the twaine,Prifcrs in 
hisworkmanthip came nearer to the painters in auncient time, | 
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