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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 910 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eupompus of Sicyon was the founder of the celebrated Sicyonian school of painting which was afterwards established by Pamphilus.
		7.) We may judge, from the advice which Eupompus gave Lysippus, that the predominant characteristic of this style was individuality ; for upon being consulted by Lysippus whom of his predecessors he should imitate, he is reported to have said, pointing to the surrounding1 crowd, " Let nature be your model, not an artist." (Plin.
		Pamphilus of Amphipolis succeeded Eupompus in the school of Sicyon, which from that time became the most celebrated school of art in Greece.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0917.html (726 words)

	Artists' models - LoveToKnow 1911
		ARTISTS' MODELS, the name given to persons who pose to artists as models for their work.
		The remark of Eupompus, quoted by Pliny, who advised Lysippus, "Let nature be your model, not an artist," directing his attention to the crowd instead of to his own work, also suggests a use of models which the many portrait statues of Greek and Roman times show to have been not unknown.
		In Egypt, too, although the priesthood had control of both sculpture and painting as used for the decoration of temples and palaces, and imposed a strict conventionalism, there are several statues of the early periods which are so lifelike in their treatment as to make it certain that they must have been worked from life.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Artists'_models (261 words)

	Text - Lysippos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For it was his custom to put in it one gold coin, worth a denarius, from the fee which he received for each statue.
		(61) Duris says that Lysippus of Sicyon was nobody's pupil; originally a bronze-smith, he joined the discipline after hearing a response from the painter Eupompus.
		When asked which of his predecessors he followed, Eupompus pointed to a crowd of people and said that it was Nature herself, not another artist, whom one should imitate.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~fvankeur/classical/ancient/text10.html (269 words)

	BEN JONSON : Discoveries and some poems, by Ben Jonson
		Parrhasius was the first won reputation by adding symmetry to picture; he added subtlety to the countenance, elegancy to the hair, love-lines to the face, and by the public voice of all artificers, deserved honour in the outer lines.
		Eupompus gave it splendour by numbers and other elegancies.
		From the optics it drew reasons, by which it considered how things placed at distance and afar off should appear less; how above or beneath the head should deceive the eye, andc.
	www.everypoet.com /archive/poetry/Ben_Jonson (14639 words)

	Robinson19
		But we should not strive with the worst, but with the best rather; making apace, and as fast as we can, after them, though we come never so far behind them, in wisdom and goodness: as the apostle exhorts the Corinthians to "be followers of him, as he was of Christ." 1 Cor.
		Yea, further, as Eupompus would imitate nature and no workman in painting [Ibid]: so neither should we stint our endeavors and desires absolutely at the degree of goodness, to which any mere man is come before us: but should aim at the very perfection, which the law of God requires.
		Men in shooting aim at the white, though sometimes they miss the butt.
	www.pilgrimhall.org /robinson19.htm (1099 words)

	Lysippus
		Lysippus of Sicyon is said by Duris not to have been the pupil of anybody, but to have been originaily a coppersmith and to bave first got the idea of venturing on sculpture from the
		iven by the painter Eupompus when asked which of his predecessors he took for his model; he pointed to a crowd of people and said that it was Nature herseif, not an artist, whom one ought to imitate.
		Lysippus as we have said was a most
	www.1stmuse.com /album/Lysippus.html (544 words)

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