From moral philosophy it took the soul, the
expression of senses, perturbations, manners, when they would paint
an angry person, a proud, an inconstant, an ambitious, a brave, a
magnanimous, a just, a merciful, a compassionate, an humble, a
dejected, a base, and the like; they made all heightnings bright,
all shadows dark, all swellings from a plane, all solids from
breaking. See where he complains of their painting Chimaeras {94}
(by the vulgar unaptly called grotesque) saying that men who were
born truly to study and emulate Nature did nothing but make monsters
against Nature, which Horace so laughed at. {95} The art plastic was
moulding in clay, or potter's earth anciently. This is the parent
of statuary, sculpture, graving, and picture; cutting in brass and
marble, all serve under her. Socrates taught Parrhasius and Clito
(two noble statuaries) first to express manners by their looks in
imagery. Polygnotus and Aglaophon were ancienter. After them
Zeuxis, who was the lawgiver to all painters; after, Parrhasius.
They were contemporaries, and lived both about Philip's time, the
father of Alexander the Great.
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