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temple are commended,as few likeunto them for workemanthip like as the other imageswhich € 
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be advaunced up to the verie top of the lanterne of the forefaid temple, are thought to be ex: 
_cellentpeeces ; howbeit, for thatthey ftand{o high and cannot wellbee difcerned, lefle foeech 
%So named, 
by occafion of 
the ftatues of 
14 natids there 
erected, as ap- 
peareth a little 
after. 
_ *For in Greck 
Batrachos isa 
frog, and Sau- 
vos 2 lizard. 
there is ofthem. As touching that #¥ercu/es, in the honour of whomethe Carthaginians were 
woont everie yeere to facrifice the fleth of mankind, as animage not regarded; for hee hath no 
place in any temple or chappell, neither is hee erected upon pillar, no nor fomuch as upoaa 
bafe, bur {tandeth upon the bare ground, juft over-again{t theentrie to thole galleriesin Rome, 
called * Ad Nationes: howbeit, the workmanthip of this Hercales isnotto be defpifed . There 
ftood alfo beneath, the nine Mufes called Thefpiades under the temple of Felcitie, and as Varro 
faith, one Junius Pifciculus (by placea gentleman of Rome)was enamoured upon onc of them, 
fo beautifull they were made: and yet to this day, Pa/iteles cannot looke enough thereupon, but 
hath thefame in great admiration : who alfo wrote five bookes, comprifing all the famous and 
principall peeces of worke that are to be found in the worlds This heeigee: was borne in the mar- 
chesandcoatts of Italie called Grecia, and togither with the townes of that traét, was made a 
Romane free-denizen ; being himfelfe alfo a good cutterin ftone, hee made that image of lupi- 
ter in yvorie which ftandeth in the chappell of CMetelHws, in the way which leadethinto[ Mars}, 
field, It happened upon atime, that beeing about the Arfenall, where certaine wild beafts were, 
newly brought out of Affrick, he looked in ata grate to beholda lyon andto take out the coun- 
terfeit of him; butashee was engraving in ftone according to the patterne, behold, out of ano- 
ther cage a panther brake loofe, tono {mall daunger of that moft curious and painfull worke. 
man :itisfaid, that hee made many workes, but in particular which were of his doing, it isnot 
precifelyfet downe. Moreover, 4f. Varro doth highly maganifie 4rcefilaws, of whofe handyworke 
hee faith that he had alioneffe in marble,and certaine winged Cupids playing with her 5 of which, 
fome feemed to hold her faft bound, others forced her to drinke out of a horne, others againe 
would feemeto fhoe her with their focks; and all this prettie anticke-worke was of one entire 
ftone, The fame Varro writeth, that Coponizs made the images of the fourteene nations , which 
are aboutthe galleries or theatre of Pompeins. | find alfo by my reading that Canachus(whome | 
commended tor a good founder ot imageur in brafle,in my catalogue of fuch artizans) wrought 
in marble likewife and cut many faire ftatues: neither is it meet,that Samos and Batrachws fhould 
be forgotten, who wrought the chappels that are within the clofe or cloifter belonging tothe 
gallertes of Odfavie,notwith{tanding they were themfelves Lacedzzmonians borne. Some alfo 
are of opinion, that they were exceeding rich men, andthat of their owne purfes they defraied 
the charges of building thofe chappels, hoping to have had the honour to bee immortalized 
with the infcriptions in the forefront thereof : which being denied them,yet in anotherplace and 
after another fort, they mademeans to eternize their name; for they devifed in the foot or bafe 
of everie pillar (as it appeareth yet at this day) to cut the forme of a* frog anda lizard, to repre- 
fent thereby their owne names, Moreover, I cannot conceale from you one prettie thing to be 
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obferved,and which wee all know tobeetrue, Thatin one chappell of Jagéter, allthe pictures — 
therein, as alfo all the ceremoniall fervice thereto belonging, are refpective altogither to the foe- 
minine fex: the which happening at firft by meere chaunce, continued afterwards : for when 
the temple of Jano was finifhed, the porters who had thecarriage of the images ordained there ¥: 
to ftand, miftooke their matkes and carried thither thofe which were appointed for the chap, 
pell of Jupiter and contrariwife thofe for Jvo, into the chappell of Jupiter . whichbeeing once 
done, wasnot altered againe, buttaken for aprefage, and religionfly ever after kept, as.if the ve- 
rie gods themfelves had fo ordered and appointed it, and made a countechaunge : which isthe 
reafonalfo, that inthe forefaid chappell of Juno, there is that kind of fervice which wasmeant | 
for Iupiter, : Lan ede rai 
- Toconclude,there have beencertaine workemen that have growne to great name, by cut- 
ting and graving in finall peeces of marble; and namely, Af mecides deviled co inchafe in mar- 
ble, acharriot with foure horfes, anda man to drive the fame, in fo {mall a roume, that a pooré 
flie might coverall with her little wings. As for Cal/icratesshe cut in ftone the fimilitude and pro- 
portion of pifmiers in fonarrow a compafle, thara man cannot eafily difcerne the feerand 
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