Excursions in Art and Letters

by William Wetmore Story

[5] A full transcript of these inscriptions will be found in Dr. Brunn’s Geschichte der griechischen Künstler, i. 249.

[6] See Lysias’s Frag., Περὶ τοῦ τύπου; also, Müller’s Ancient Art, 360, and King’s Antique Gems.

[7] “Non ex ebore tantum sciebat Phidias facere simulacrum, faciebat et ex ære. Si marmor illi, si adhuc viliorem materiam obtulisses, fecisset quale ex illa fieri optimum potuisset.”—Seneca, Epist. 86.

[8] Du Moulage en Plâtre chez les Anciens, par M. Charles C. Perkins, correspondant de l’Académie des Beaux Arts, etc. Paris, 1869.

[9] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. xxxv. ch. xii.

[10] So also Fronto in his De differentiis Vocabulorum, published by Cardinal Mai from palimpsests, says: “Vultus proprie hominis—os omnium—facies plurium.”

[11] According to Æschines, in his oration against Ctesiphon, Miltiades desired that his name should be inscribed on this portrait statue, which was placed in the Pœcile; but the Athenians refused their permission.

[12] See Cicero ad Atticum, xii. 41.

[13] iii. 12, § 13; viii. 14, § 5.

[14] Geschichte der griechischen Künstler, vol. i. p. 403.