Quid? ille alter aeque nobilis pictor, luctuosum immolatae Iphigeniae sacrificium referens, cum Calchantem tristem, maestum Ulixen, [clamantem Aiacem] lamentantem Menelaum circa aram statuisset, caput Agamemnonis involvendo nonne summi maeroris acerbitatem arte non posse exprimi confessus est? itaque pictura eius haruspicis et amici et fratris lacrimis madet, patris fletum spectantis adfectu aestimandum reliquit.
Consider too that other no less famous painter who portrayed the grievous sacrifice of immolated Iphigenia, placing a sad Calchas, a mournful Ulysses, and a lamenting Menelaus around the altar. Did he not confess by veiling Agamemnons head that the bitterness of deepest grief cannot be expressed in art? So his painting is wet with the tears of the soothsayer and the friend and the brother, but left the fathers weeping to be judged by the emotion of the spectator.
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