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A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 189 — Chapter IV · THE CRITICISM OF THE PLÉIADE.

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Inst. Orat., II. xiii. 13. The anecdote in Quintilian is very simple: Apelles paints Antigonus in profile to hide a lost eye. Vauquelin (on uncertain authority) expands this into a long story of a competition between Polygnotus, Scopas, and Diocles.

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