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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