of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. ? | 5 47 
A namely,one of his making which doth reprefent a folemne factifice of oxen,is to be feen at this 
day withinthe ftately galleries of Pompezus : and verely, this manner of painting the folemnitie 
of afacrifice, hee firft invented: butno man ever after could attaine to his dexteritie in that kind : 
and notwithftanding many gave the actempt,and feemed to imitate him,yetthey came all fhore 
of him.Aboveal],he had afingular giftto work by perfpeGtive : for when he was minded to paint 
a boeufe or oxe,to fhew the full length,he would not portray him fidelong oraflanke but atront: 
by which meanes the beaft is beft reprefented,not onely howlong,but alfo how large and big he 
is every way. Againe, whereas all other painters,whenfoever they would raife their worke, and 
make any thing feeme eminent and high,ufe to colour the fame white and bright,and the berter 
to make thempper{pective,doe fhaddowor deepe the fame with blacke ; this man in lieu thereof, 
 B would sets oxe all of ablacke colour,and caufe the bodie as it were of the fhaddow to arife 
outof itfelfe. And verely,fo excellent he was in this perfpective, that aman would fay, his even, 
plaine, and flat piture, were embofled and raifed worke, yea and imagine where fractures were, 
that all was found and entire, This man lived alfoat Sicyone:and verely,for along time this citie 
was reputed the native countrey that bred painters, and the onely place ftored with excellent pi- 
Gures.Butduring that time wherein Scawrws was AEdile atRome,all the rich tables which were in 
the publicke places of that cittie, whether in the market {teads,temples, or common hals, were 
{eized upon and brought to Rome, for cofatisfie great fummes of mony wherein the Sicyonians 
ftoodendebted. eqns 9 ) 
After Paufias there arofe one Euphranor the Ifthmian,who flourifhed about the hundred and 
C fourth Olympias, far furpaffing all other painters of his time. This Euphrazor is he whom Ihave 
named among the famousimageurs and founders. Of his workemanthip there bee colofles of 
braffe,ftatues of marble ftone,yea,and faire drinking cups chafed andengraven. Ofanexcellent 
capacitie he was,and apt to learne any thing ,{tudious withall,and painefull above all others: and 
whatfoever he gave his mind unto,therein he excelled: and in one word,a generall man he was, 
like hinnfelfe ftill that is to fay his craft{-maifter in all,and as good in one thing as another, This Ea: 
is he who feemeth to have expreffed firft the portand majeftie that is in princes and great ftates, 
and to have obferved {ymmetrie and proportion : and yet he was not without his imperfection, 
for commonly,as he made the bulke of the bodie too flender,fo the joints and heads were fome- 
what with the biggelt: howbeit,he wrote bookes as touching fymmetrie and proportion, asalfo 
D of colours.Among other workes of his, there arereckoned thefe, to wit, the pourtraiture of a 
battaile or skirmifh of horfemen,the twelve cheefe gods and goddefles, alfo the lively picture of 
Thefews of waom he was wont to fay, That the Thefews of Parafivs his painting was fed with rofes, 
burtthis Th2/2vs of his with good eth, There be excellent tables of his making atEphefus, to 
wit, Viyxes faining hinafelfe mad, and in that fit coupling an oxe and a horfein one and the fame 
yoke: alfo divers perfonages in theirclokes and mantles, after the Greekith fafhion, mufing, and 
in their deepe ftudie : likewife,a captaine,putting up his {word into his fcabbard, 5 , 
Arrhefametime]ived Cydias, hee who ina table reprefented the * Argonautes, for which »;,Divers vali- 
Hortenfius the Oratour, was content to pay 144000 fefterces. This pi€ture hee fhrined in an ant knights, 
Oratorie or Chappell, built of purpofe foric, in ahoufe of pleafure that he had at Thufculum. ra Bebe 
E As fot Aatidotus,apprentice he was unto Euphrazor- of his handyworke thereis a picture at foninhis voi- 
Athens,refembling one with a fhield readie to enter into combat and fight, alfoa wieltler, and a 78°10 Celchos 
- eas : or the golden 
player upoa the fife or haut-bois(which is a peece of worke highly commended,and few compa- frcece, 
rable unto it)more curious and precife he was inthe fecrets of theart,than obfervant of fymme- 
trie and proportion ; beeing otherwife given to ufe fad and duskifhcolours. The greateftname 
that he had,was for bringing up Nicas the Athenian,who of all others painted women moft ex- 
_ cellently. For lights and fhaddowes in perfpe@tive,he was exquifit: alfo a paffing great care and 
regard he had foto raife his worke,as that it eemed to bee embofled and higher than the bourd 
_ ofhistable:The pictures of Nemea,which out of Afia was tranfportedtoRome by Syl/anus, and 
hung up inthe Senate-houfe, as I have fhewed heretofore; of prince Bacchus within the temple 
LE of Concord ; of Hyacinthus, which Auguftus Cafar upon a f{peciall liking to it,brought with him 
10 Rome, after he had forced and facked Alexandria, in which regard, Tiberi Cafar his fuc- 
ceflour, (Seeing whataffeGtion Avguitus Cafar had to itin his life time) dedicated it in the tem- 
pleof the faid 4ugafls; and laftly, of the goddeffe Diana 3 were all proofes of his skill and 
workeman{hip.Moreover,at Ephefus,the fepulchre of a Megabyzusone of the priefts of the or- 
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