[322] Ibid. 311 C.

[323] Plin. Hist. Nat. 35.

[324] Stob. Floril. 98, p. 535.

[325] Plato, Laws, 769 B.

[326] See Rep. X. 596 E, 605 A, etc. In the Sophist, 235 D, 266 D, etc., Plato reserves his denunciation for φανταστική which creates illusions; he almost approves of εἰκαστική. Idealised painting is hinted at in Rep. 472 D, 484 C.

[327] Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1329.

[328] Plato, Theait. 208 E.

[329] The modern oil process was not employed till late on in the Renaissance. Fresco was common.

[330] Aristot. Pol. viii. 3. 12.

[331] θεωρητικὸν τοῦ περὶ τὰ σώματα κάλλους.