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THE IDEAL.
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gesture or costume, but the goddess appears as a
modesty-clad female, and with the exception of a
diadem and pomegranate, has no indication of her
calling.1
PAINTING OS" A TASE IN THE HAMILTON COLLECTION.
This regard for spiritual idealization is the cause
that Polygnotus is also praised by Aristotle,3 for
representing men as more beautiful than they are,
while Dionysius merely made them what they are.
Ctesilaus, also, is said by Pliny to have made noble
men appear more noble ; while Aristotle praises
Zeuxis for preferring the impossible, if probable, to
the barely possible. One who carried this principle
to an extreme was Lysippus of Sicyon, who said he
1 D'Hancarville, Antiq. Mrusq. iv. p. 17, pi. 12. The figures
in the original are black upon a red ground, which will explain
what would otherwise appear to be incorrectness of drawing.
2 In another place he praises him for the careful depiction of
manners, a point in which Zeuxis was inattentive.
87
gesture or costume, but the goddess appears as a
modesty-clad female, and with the exception of a
diadem and pomegranate, has no indication of her
calling.1
PAINTING OS" A TASE IN THE HAMILTON COLLECTION.
This regard for spiritual idealization is the cause
that Polygnotus is also praised by Aristotle,3 for
representing men as more beautiful than they are,
while Dionysius merely made them what they are.
Ctesilaus, also, is said by Pliny to have made noble
men appear more noble ; while Aristotle praises
Zeuxis for preferring the impossible, if probable, to
the barely possible. One who carried this principle
to an extreme was Lysippus of Sicyon, who said he
1 D'Hancarville, Antiq. Mrusq. iv. p. 17, pi. 12. The figures
in the original are black upon a red ground, which will explain
what would otherwise appear to be incorrectness of drawing.
2 In another place he praises him for the careful depiction of
manners, a point in which Zeuxis was inattentive.