Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Perkins, Charles C. (Charles Callahan), 1823-1886 · New York : C. Scribner's sons · leaf 99
st. From this arose thesaying Ne sutor ultra crepidam (Let notthe shoemaker go beyond his last). Once,too, when Alexander the Great attempted tocriticise one of his pictuies, Apelles advisedhim to be silent, as the colour-boys were laugh-ing at him. Apelles was unsuipassed in dili-gence, and never… … Apollo and Daphne, Fr. Albani, Louvre. drew with a brush upon a panel a line sofine that Protogenes, when he saw it, knewthat only Apelles could have done it. Draw-ing a still finer line, he went away again, andApelles on his return divided the two withone even more subtile. Seeing this,…
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