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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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