The Philosophy of Painting a Study of the Development of the Art From Prehistor
The Philosophy of Painting a Study of the Development of the Art From Prehistor
Ralcy Husted Bell
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Lucien ranks him with Phidias and Apelles. Nicomachus, son and pupil of Aristiasus, and father or brother of Aris tides, was at the head of the school of Thebes, an offshoot of the Sicyonic, from the traditions of which it later diverged. He was praised by Cicero, Phny, and Plutarch who "compares his pictures with the verses of Homer, as having, besides strength and beauty, the charm of seeming to have been executed with little effort" (Champlin). Aristides, of this school, painted a picture pr...e- served to us only in Pliny's description. This gruesome work represented a mother wounded in the breast at the capture of a town. Clinging to her bleeding flesh was a babe ; and on her face was an expression of dread lest the child suck blood instead of milk. Boileau observes "that a new and extraordinary thought is by no means a thought which no person ever conceived before, or could possibly conceive, on the contrary, it is such a thought as must have oc- curred to every man in the like case, and have been one of the first in any person's mind upon the same Early Painting : Greek ^7 occasion ; these reflections still do not render it difficult to distinguish imitation and plagiarism from necessary- resemblance and unavoidable analogy ...
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