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Lectures on painting, delivered at the Royal Academy

Note 6 — FIRST LECTURE. ANCIENT ART.

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Pausanias Attic, c. xxviii. The word used by Pausanias καταγραψαι, shews that the figures of Parrhasius were intended for a Bassorelievo. They were in profile. This is the sense of the word Catagrapha in Pliny, xxxv. c. 8. he translates it “obliquas imagines.”

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