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A60739 Polygraphice, or, The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying, and perfuming in four books : exemplifyed in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countries and figures of various forms, the way of engraving, etching, and limning, with all their requisites and ornaments, the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities, the paintings of the antients, washing of maps, globes or pictures, the dying of cloth, silk, horns, bones, wood, glass, stones and metals, the varnishing, colouring and gilding thereof according to any purpose or intent, the painting, colouring and beautifying of the face, skin and hair, the whole doctrine of perfumes, never published till now, together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting / by William Salmon ... Salmon, William, 1644-1713. 1673 (1673) Wing S445; ESTC R16620 189,914 371

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a darkish robe his beard and hair party-coloured CHAP. XIII Of the painting of some of the Heathen goddesses I. JVno Queen of the goddesses with black hair and eyes adorned with a sky-coloured mantle or pied wrought with gold and peacocks eyes like the orient circles in the peacocks trains II. Diana the goddess of chastity with yellow hair a grass green mantle trimmed with silver buskins silver bow golden quiver painted colours III. Pallas the goddess of wisdom with a blew mantle imbroidered with silver IV. Venus the goddess of love and beauty with gold yellow hair attired with black a scarlet or else dun-coloured robe V. Ceres the goddess of Corn and plenty with yellow hair and a straw-coloured mantle trimmed with silver VI. Tellus the goddess of the earth in a green mantle VII Vrania in a mantle of azure filled with Lamps VIII Aurora in a purple robe in a blew mantle fringed with silver IX Proserpine Queen of Hell in a black mantle trimmed with gold flames X. Vesta the daughter of Saturn in white garments filled with flames XI Astrea the goddess of justice in a crimson mantle trimmed with silver XII Flora the goddess of flowers in a mantle of divers colours XIII Night in a black mantle spotted with stars of gold XIV The Graces were always alike in silver robes like sisters Eccbo the goddess of the air and daughter of speech the entirely beloved of Pan is an invisible goddess Ausonius Gallus reporteth that she hath oftentimes disswaded and reprehended such who would undertake to depaint her and repeats the fame in an Epigram whose sence in English is this Surcease thox medling Artist thy endeavour Who for thy skill hast reap'd such long liv'd fame Strive not to paint my bodys shape for never Did any humane-eyes behold the same In concave caverns of the earth I dwell Daughter of th' air and of each tatling voice In woods and hollow dales I build my Cell Joying to re-report the least heard noise To grief-opprest and men disconsolate That tell each grove their Souls vexation Their dying agonies I aggravate By their dele accents iteration And he that will describe my form aright Must shape a formless sound or airy sprite CHAP. XIV The Painting of Law-givers Emperours and Kings and Queens I. MOses the Hebrew Law-giver with bright hair a very beautiful visage with radiant scintillations about his head in form of hoariness which in painting is called Glory II. Numa Pompilius with white hair crowned with a silver bend or Diadem his robe Crimson trimmed with Gold his mantle yellow trimmed with Silver his buskins watchet and Silver III. Aeneas the Trojane Prince in a purple mantle trimmed with Gold IV. David the King of Israel with brown hair and a ruddy complexion V. Alexander Magnus with brown hair and a ruddy complexion VI. Roman Emperors with yellow Carussers embroidered with silver the labels of their sleeves and short bases of watchet the under sleeves and long stockings white a Lawrel wreath with a silver jewel before and rayes of gold issueing from the wreath VII German Emperors with a violet coloured robe watchet or light coloured VIII Mahomet the Turks great Prophet in garments all of green IX Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden with yellow hair X. Dido Queen of Carthage in a purple or Scarlet mantle her under garments Purple a Golden quiver her hair yellow tyed up with Spangs and Knots of Gold XI Elizabeth Queen of England pale faced light brown hair and gray-eyed CHAP. XV. The Painting of Philosophers and the Sybills I. PYthagoras in white garments with a Crown of Gold Empedocles in Violet Murry or Purple and so the rest of the Grecian Philosophers III. Erasmus Roterdamus yellow haired gray-eyed and somewhat pale IV. Beza is painted with white hair V. Sibilla Agrippa a woman in years in a roseal garment VI. Sibilla Libica an elderly woman crowned with a garland of flowers in purple garments VII Sibilla Delphica with a black garment a young woman with a horn in her hand VIII Sibilla Phrygia in red garments having an old Saturnian hard favoured face IX Sibilla Herophila a young woman very fair in a purple garment and head covered with a vail of Lawn Sibilla Europea a comely young woman having a high red-coloured face a fine vail on her head and clad in a garment of Gold work XI Sibilla Persica with a white vail and a golden garment XII Sibilla Samia a middle aged woman clothed in Willow weeds having a palm in her hand XIII Sibilla Hellespontica a young woman in green garments with a round lovely fresh coloured face holding in her left hand a Book and in her right hand a Pen. XIV Sibilla Tibur●ina an old woman in purple garments of a hard visage holding in her Apron the books of the Sibills These Sibills for their Prophecies of Christ are in high esteem they are ten in number as Varro saith yet others make twelve of which we are not satisfied Boyfardus in his Treatise of divination besides these ten addeth two others Epirotica and Aegyptia Some as Martianus will have but two Pliny and Solinus but three Aelian four and Salmasius but the first seven They are generally described as young women yet some were old as she that sold the books unto Tarquin from whence we conclude the Licentia pictoria is very large CHAP. XVI The Painting of Arts Vertues and Passions I. ARithmetick is painted in cloth of Gold Geometry sallow faced a green mantle fringed with silver and a silver wand in her right hand Aft●●nomy with a silver Cressant on her fore-head an azure mantle a watchet Scarf with golden Stars II. Faith is painted in white garments with a cup of Gold Hope in blew with a silver Anchor Charity in yellow robes on her head a tyre of Gold with precious stones her chair Ivory III. Religion in a silver vail with a mantle or garment of white Justice in a white robe and a white mantle with a Coronet of silver and white buskins Innocency in White wholly IV. Concord in a sky coloured robe and a yellow mantle Peace in white scattered with stars or a carnation mantle fringed with Gold a vail of silver green buskins and a palm in her hand in black Vnanimity in a blew robe mantle and buskins with a chaplet of blew Lillies V. Wisdom in a white robe blew mantle seeded with stars Law in purple robes seeded with gold stars a mantle of Carnation fringed with gold purple and yellow buskins Government in Amour VI. Watchfulness in a yellow robe a Sable mantle fringed with silver and seeded with waking eyes a chaplet of turnsole in her right hand a lamp in her left a bell Confidence in a party coloured garment Modesty in blew VII Eternity in blew seeded with Golden stars The Soul in white garments branched with gold and pearl and crowned with a garland of Roses Felicity in purple trimmed with silver VIII Love in Crimson fringed with gold a flame