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fol. 6v		Chapter IV in Part I, Section I: 'Of Ideas of Imitation' (3.102)
      
      
      
     #25#One would fain hope such#26# was not the criterion of art among the
     more enlightened of the ancients .  <and> yet, as far as my own reading
     goes - I remember <no> {scarcely a} a passage of any author - <high or ^ low> {not
     himself an artist} - which
     does not point to mere deception as the sole end of art.  <and I	
 5   cannot but fancy that even the gold and ivory and glass eyes of
     Phidias can have been good for little else.>*        It is a strange
     thing that the great historical painters of Liberty[?]
     which the landscape painters - following them is[?] immediately
     wasted their lives in juggling.       For the fact admits of easy
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fol. 7r		Chapter III in Part II, Section II: 'Of Truth of Chiaroscuro' (3.303-4)
      
      
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     still see the shadows clear and in shape - but cannot in the least
     see the boughs that cause them  .
      
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