Note 408 — Chapter IX · SOUL-IMAGE AND LIFE-FEELING
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
It must be repeated that the Hellenistic shadow-painting of Zeuxis and Apollodorus is a modelling of the individual body for the purpose of producing the plastic effect on the eye. There was no idea of rendering space by means of light and shade. The body is “shaded” but it casts no shadow.
(Contrast with this Dante’s exact and careful specification of the time-of-day in every episode of the Purgatorio and the Paradiso, sublimely imaginative as these poems are.—Tr.)