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110 THE BRITISH MtJSECM.
Pausanias, was accustomed to say, that the plastic
art was the parent of sculpture of every kind. By
referring to the words of Pliny * below, we shall see
that Pasiteles made three divisions, to all of which
he assigned the plastic art, or the modelling art, as
the origin. These divisions are—statuary, or the
art of making complete figures in any material;
sculpture, or the art of cutting marble into statues,
bas-reliefs, and ornamental pieces for architecture,
&c.; and, thirdly, chasing (cselatura), -or the art oi
working forms on hammered or hollowed out plates
of metal, either for bas-reliefs generally, or as a
coating to some other material.
Theodoras of Samos, it appears, likewise cast
figures of ironf.
Pausanias could find no works of Theodoras in
brass, remaining in his time; but he mentions one>
in the temple of the Ephesian Diana, by Rhcecus}-
Mr. Knight believed himself to be the possessor ot
one of RIuecus's works, which is now in the British
Museum, a head of Diomede of the size of lift,a
fragment of a statue §.
'Pliny's words are: "Laudat et Easitelem, .qui plaslicen
matrem statuarrce, scalptureeque, et cwlaturte esse dixit: etcum
esset in omnibus his summus, nihil umquatn fecit aulequafl
finxit."—Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxv. 12.
f Pausan. Laconica, c. xiv. In his Phocica, Pansanias, «"
scribing the stand of the bowl of Halyattes which existed to ll»
time of his visit, informs us, after Herodotus (i. 25J, that GlaucoSj
a native of Chios, first discovered the art of soldering iron. c.*sl'
Other works in that meta), which he notices, c. xviii., are a
group of Hercules and the Hydra by an artist named Tisagoc-'
and the heads of a lion and a boar which he saw in Fergana
dedicated to Bacchus. In his "Messenica, c. xxxi., Pausanw-
mentions a statue of Epaminondasmade of iron.
% Phocica, c. xxxviii.
§ Mr. Knight's Bronze, xxvii. 1. Just within the cavity, of'
posite the left ear, is the Greek letter;j in high relief; conj«c'
tured to be for Khcecus of Samos, because the name of no oV
Pausanias, was accustomed to say, that the plastic
art was the parent of sculpture of every kind. By
referring to the words of Pliny * below, we shall see
that Pasiteles made three divisions, to all of which
he assigned the plastic art, or the modelling art, as
the origin. These divisions are—statuary, or the
art of making complete figures in any material;
sculpture, or the art of cutting marble into statues,
bas-reliefs, and ornamental pieces for architecture,
&c.; and, thirdly, chasing (cselatura), -or the art oi
working forms on hammered or hollowed out plates
of metal, either for bas-reliefs generally, or as a
coating to some other material.
Theodoras of Samos, it appears, likewise cast
figures of ironf.
Pausanias could find no works of Theodoras in
brass, remaining in his time; but he mentions one>
in the temple of the Ephesian Diana, by Rhcecus}-
Mr. Knight believed himself to be the possessor ot
one of RIuecus's works, which is now in the British
Museum, a head of Diomede of the size of lift,a
fragment of a statue §.
'Pliny's words are: "Laudat et Easitelem, .qui plaslicen
matrem statuarrce, scalptureeque, et cwlaturte esse dixit: etcum
esset in omnibus his summus, nihil umquatn fecit aulequafl
finxit."—Plin. Hist. Nat. xxxv. 12.
f Pausan. Laconica, c. xiv. In his Phocica, Pansanias, «"
scribing the stand of the bowl of Halyattes which existed to ll»
time of his visit, informs us, after Herodotus (i. 25J, that GlaucoSj
a native of Chios, first discovered the art of soldering iron. c.*sl'
Other works in that meta), which he notices, c. xviii., are a
group of Hercules and the Hydra by an artist named Tisagoc-'
and the heads of a lion and a boar which he saw in Fergana
dedicated to Bacchus. In his "Messenica, c. xxxi., Pausanw-
mentions a statue of Epaminondasmade of iron.
% Phocica, c. xxxviii.
§ Mr. Knight's Bronze, xxvii. 1. Just within the cavity, of'
posite the left ear, is the Greek letter;j in high relief; conj«c'
tured to be for Khcecus of Samos, because the name of no oV