would be “making comes before matching.” Before the 
     artist ever wanted to match the sights of the visible world 
     he wanted to create things in their own right. . . . The very 
     violence with which Plato denounces this trickery reminds 
     us of the momentous fact that at the time he wrote, 
     mimesis was a recent invention. There are many critics 
     now who share his distaste, for one reason or another, 
     but even they would admit there are few more exciting 
     spectacles in the whole history of art than the great 
     awakening of Greek sculpture and painting between the 
     sixth century and the time of Plato’s youth toward the 
     end of the fifth century B.C.

     Etienne Gilson makes much of the distinction between 
making and matching in his Painting and Reality . And whereas 
till Giotto a painting was a thing, from Giotto till Cézanne