Enimvero quod luto fictum vel aere infusum vel lapide incusum vel cera inustum vel pigmento illitum vel alio quopiam humano artificio adsimulatum est, non multa intercapedine temporis dissimile redditur et ritu cadaveris unum vultum et immobilem possidet, tantum praestat imaginis artibus ad similitudinem referendam levitas illa speculi fabra et splendor opifex.
By contrast, what is molded in clay, poured in bronze, hammered in stone, burned in wax, applied in paint or reproduced by any other human art, after no great interval of time becomes unlike and possesses a single, fixed expression like a corpse, so far does the artful smoothness, the creative brilliance of a mirror surpass the arts of portraiture in reproducing a likeness.
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