A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . #########*# ** **######### THE THIRDBOOKE TREATING OF COLOVR BYIO:PAVLVSLOMATIVS PAINTER OF MILANE. Of the <vertue of I. T is manifcft, that all thofc thinges which arc firflproportionably drawnc, and then artificially colou-red 3 will beare the true and naturall refemblance ofthe Life, by exprefling all the actions and gefturcsthereof. Infomuch that one dogge, feeing anotherpainted, will barke at him, as it were prouoking himto fight: becaufe he taketh him to be aliue,by the bareappearance, as if he faw
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . #########*# ** **######### THE THIRDBOOKE TREATING OF COLOVR BYIO:PAVLVSLOMATIVS PAINTER OF MILANE. Of the <vertue of I. T is manifcft, that all thofc thinges which arc firflproportionably drawnc, and then artificially colou-red 3 will beare the true and naturall refemblance ofthe Life, by exprefling all the actions and gefturcsthereof. Infomuch that one dogge, feeing anotherpainted, will barke at him, as it were prouoking himto fight: becaufe he taketh him to be aliue,by the bareappearance, as if he fawe himfelfe in a glafle. An ex-ample whereof [wee haue in a dogge, which defaced one painted byCaudentim, in arable oichrift carrying the erode at Cambium. We readehow Birdcs hauc flownc at other arcificiall ones; as the Partrigcs, which P4 THE THl^D BOOZE. flewe at thofc which Parrhafms had painted vpon a columne at Rhodes. It isreported that there was a certaine Dragon, fo naturally drawne in the Tri-umvirate in Rome ^ that hee made the birdesleaue ringing. Howbeitthatpicture in Clauditu Theater was more ftrang,where (they fay)the Croweswere openly deceiued with the counterfeit tiIes,offering to flie through thepainted windowes, to the exceeding great admiration and laughter of theipeclators. wellknowne, who painted clutters ofgrapes on a table fbliuely in the Theater, that the birdes flying by peckedat them; though hee were afterwards beguiled himfelfe, by a curtainewhich Parrhafm painted in emulation of his grapes. And here I may nocomit that admirable horfe,which <^Apelles painted for the confuting of cer-taine painters who contended with him: which ailbone as the Hue horfesfawe, they ftraight began to neigh, wince, and flinge with their heelcs,provokingit to fight. Who afterwards painted t
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