FIRST LECTURE.

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God whole arrows avenged his wrongs and reftored

the figure of Ajax wrecked,

his daughter : and this , in the figand from the

ing

defiance unto thecan

As neither of thefe

rky iky

themfelves to a painter’s mind without a contrail of the

moil awful and the moil terrific tones of colour, magicof light and fhade, and unlimited command over thetools of art, we may with Pliny and with Plutarchconfider Apollodorus as the firil aifertor of the pencil’shonours, as the firil colouriil of his age, and the manwho opened the gates of art which the PXeracleot Zeuxisentered (h).

From the effential ilyle of Polygnotus and the fpecificdifcrimination of Apollodorus, Zeuxis, by comparifon

of

(K) Hie primus fpecies exprimere inllituit, Pliny, xxxv. 36, as fpecies in tirefenfe Harduin takes it, ‘ oris et habitus venultas/ cannot be refuted to Polygnotus ,and the artilts immediately preceding Apollodorus, it mult mean here the fubdivi-lions of generic form; the dalles.

At this period we may with probability fix the invention of local colour, andtone; which, though ftridtly fpeaking it be neither the light nor the fhade, is regu-lated by the medium which tinges both. Thisj Pliny calls ‘ fplendour.’ To Apol-lodorus Plutarch aferibes likewife the invention of tints, the mixtures of colourand the gradations of lhade, if I conceive the paflage rightly : A-rroXAsJ'ai^o; •Zwyfotpoj Ay^^unrut/ irgcoTo; (pSogctv xai cnroy^gairu Saw?. Plutarch, Bellone

an pace Ath. &c. 346. This was the element of the ancient Agpoyy, that imper-ceptible tranfition, which, without opacity, confufion or hardnefs, united localcolour, demitint, fliade and reflexes..