FIRST LECTURE.

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painted on the fliield of the Minerva of Phidias , to bechafed by Mys, could be nothing but a monochrom,and was probably dehgned with the ceftrum, as an in-liniment of greater accuracy (c). Apelles and Pro-togcnes, nearly a century afterwards, drew their conteftedlines with the pencil; and that alone, as delicacy andcvanefccnt fubtlety were the charadteriftic of thofe lines,may give an idea of their mechanic excellence. Andyet in their time the diagraphic procefs (d), which isthe very fame with the linear one we have defcribed,,made a part of liberal education. And Paulias ofSicyon, the contemporary of Apelles , and perhaps thegreatefl mailer of compofition amongft the ancients,when employed to repair the decayed pi&ures of Poly-gnotus at Thefpite, was adjudged by general opinion to

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(c) Paufmias Attic, c. xxviii. The word ufed by Paufanias xura.-y^x^oa,fliews that the figures of Parrhafius were intended for a Bafforelievo. They werein profile. This is the fenie of the word Catagrapha in Pliny , xxxv. c. 8. hetranflates it “ obliquas imagines.”

(d) By the authority chiefly of Pamphilus the maftei of Apelles , who taught atSicyon. ‘ Hums auctoritate,’ fays Pliny , xxxv. 10. ‘ cffeCtum eh Sicyone primum,deinde et in tota Grteeia, ut pueri ingenui ante omnia diagraphicen, hoc eft, pic-turam in buxo, docerentur,’ &c. liarduin, contrary to the common editions, readsindeed, and by the authority, he fays, of all the MSS. graphical, which hetranflates : ars ‘ delineandi,’ defl’eigner, but he has not proved that graphice meansnot more than defiga ; and if he had, what was it that Pamphilus taught r he wasnot the inventor of what he had been taught himlelf. He eftabliftied or rather-renewed a particular method of drawing, which contained the rudiments, andfacilitated the method of painting.