This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...in Pliny, where he says, " nulla gloria artifi-cum est, nisiqui taiw/cwpinxere," as if he meant that the only glory in art consisted in tabular pictures, " mvaKes," on wood, and that there was but little in monumental and mural efforts. Pliny, however, does not here contrast the tabular pictures of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1838 edition. Excerpt: ...in Pliny, where he says, " nulla gloria artifi-cum est, nisiqui taiw/cwpinxere," as if he meant that the only glory in art consisted in tabular pictures, " mvaKes," on wood, and that there was but little in monumental and mural efforts. Pliny, however, does not here contrast the tabular pictures of Apelles with the mural paintings of Polygnotus, but with the works of one Ludius, a Roman, a mere ornamental landscape-painter upon walls, like our Bond Street paper painters. This was much the fashion in Pliny's time, whieli he laments; and many examples of the same species may now be seen in Pompeii. Having thus described the fancies and caprices by which the art had been degraded, Pliny turns to the highly beautiful tabular works of Apelles, and observes naturally enough; " This is not the thing; the glory of art and of artists consists in the Venus of Apelles, the mother of Aristides, the lalysus of Protogenes, and not in this mechanical whim, which is not the glory and the end of painting." This, perhaps, is the explanation which he would give if he were alive and able to answer us. Is it not unjust then to take up such groundas M.Raoul-Rochettehas done in France, and Payne Knight in England, and infer that there was no real glory in any other mode of painting? The ancients estimated mural painting at Delphi, as the Italians do in the Vatican. But they did not undervalue tabular painting, small pictures, encaustic, landscapes, or humour; they painted in every style and they excelled in all. Pliny now proceeds to the encaustic painters, of whom Pausias and Euphranor appear to have been the greatest. Pausias was a master of foreshortening, as we learn from Pliny's description of a bull which he painted in front and projecting beyond the...
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