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which Claudius Fulcher exhibited at Ro ne, the 
painted clothes about the stage and theatre (which 
represented building), brought this art into great ad- 
miration ; for the workmanship was so artificial! and 
liuely, that the very rauens in the aire, deceived with 
the likenesse of houses, flew thither apace, for to set- 
tle thereupon, supposing, verily, these had been tiles 
and roofs indeed.” 
Of the Grecian painters, and “ notable pictures 
to the number of 305," Pliny gives a moat interest- 
ing account. “ Cimon the Cleonaean first deuised 
the works called Catagrapha, i. e. pourtraits and 
images standing byassed and sidelong, the sundry ha- 
bits, also, of the visage and cast of the eie, making them 
to look, some backward ouer their shoulder, others 
aloft, and some againe downward. His cunning it 
was to shew in a picture, the knitting of the mem- 
bers in eveiy ioint ; to make the veines appeare how 
they branched and spread ; and besides, the first he 
was that counterfeited in flat pictures the plaits, 
folds, wrinckles, and hollow lappets of the garment. 
Phinaeus, the brother of Phidias, it was that painted 
the battel betweene the Athenians and Persians vpon 
the plains of Marathon. Polygnotns the Tliasian 
was the first that painted worpen in gay and light 
apparell, with their hoods and other head attire of 
sundry colours. His inuention it was to paint images 
with their months open, to make them shew their 
teeth ; and, in one word, represented such varietie of 
countenance, far different from the rigid and heauy 
