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14 THE WORKS OF
can Vases, which in truth are of the primitive
Grecian taste, because the Tuscan works in mar-
ble, or of alabaster of Volterra, are of a different
style. In fine the Tuscans ought to have had
that Grecian style, being a double colony, first
of the Phoenicans and .afterwards of the Greeks,
as is proved by their monuments, because except
some obscure points of mythology they contain
no other but Grecian deeds, particularly os the
times heroic.
This ssyle was not general to all Greece, but
solely where the Egyptians and Phoenicians in-
troduced it, that is, by the coast of the sea; but
inland I believe they began much later to make
idols, nor did they recieve the art from without,
butinvented it amongthemselves, beginning srom
the plastica.•
The principal occasion of the introduction os
the arts, were the statues whicli they erected
to the conquerors at the Olympic Games.
These they did at the public expence of the
country of the conquerors; from whence all
their compatriots had interest that they Should
be done as they would with. The artists in
drawing these subjedts had opportunities os ex-
amining the belt proportioned, and moss beau-
tisul bodies ; and the glory of immortalizing
themselves by their works, united with the com-
petence of others, who exposed themselves in
those celebrated places, were potent stimulus's
for the sculptors, and gave facility to the amateurs
to judge better of their merits by comparison.
This sirst imitation of truth, gave a degree of
can Vases, which in truth are of the primitive
Grecian taste, because the Tuscan works in mar-
ble, or of alabaster of Volterra, are of a different
style. In fine the Tuscans ought to have had
that Grecian style, being a double colony, first
of the Phoenicans and .afterwards of the Greeks,
as is proved by their monuments, because except
some obscure points of mythology they contain
no other but Grecian deeds, particularly os the
times heroic.
This ssyle was not general to all Greece, but
solely where the Egyptians and Phoenicians in-
troduced it, that is, by the coast of the sea; but
inland I believe they began much later to make
idols, nor did they recieve the art from without,
butinvented it amongthemselves, beginning srom
the plastica.•
The principal occasion of the introduction os
the arts, were the statues whicli they erected
to the conquerors at the Olympic Games.
These they did at the public expence of the
country of the conquerors; from whence all
their compatriots had interest that they Should
be done as they would with. The artists in
drawing these subjedts had opportunities os ex-
amining the belt proportioned, and moss beau-
tisul bodies ; and the glory of immortalizing
themselves by their works, united with the com-
petence of others, who exposed themselves in
those celebrated places, were potent stimulus's
for the sculptors, and gave facility to the amateurs
to judge better of their merits by comparison.
This sirst imitation of truth, gave a degree of