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Crowder smiled. "None of Apelles's paintings are in existence now," he answered. "While I was acting as model to Apelles and I may remark that I never grew tired of standing in the position he desired I listened with great satisfaction to the conversations between him and the friends who called upon him while he was at work.
Portraits are less precious than jewels I have received from you a medallic and a painted portrait but at least they bring my Willibald more vividly before me. Alexander the Great would only allow himself to be painted by Apelles's hand. You have found your Apelles in Albrecht Dürer, an artist of the first rank and no less to be admired for his remarkable good sense.
Talking of oratory, Mr. Wilkes described it as accompanied with all the charms of poetical expression. It was observed of Apelles's Venus , that her flesh seemed as if she had been nourished by roses: his oratory would sometimes make one suspect that he eats potatoes and drinks whisky. Mr.
Vasari dines at the ducal table, while Galileo's pension is the rack; the mob which carries Cimabue's canvas in triumph, drives Dante into exile; Rubens is a king's ambassador, and Grotius is sent to jail; to Reynolds's levees, poor, bankrupt Goldsmith steals like an unwelcome guest, and Apelles's gold is paid to him in measures, while Homer, singing immortal lines, goes blind and begging.
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