Painting, for instance; did you ever see anything to compare with that Banqueting Scene in the Palace?
Why, it's a triumph of pictorial art, and, by Jove, of architecture too.

And the actor doesn't only paint scenes--or get them painted for him, it comes to the same thing--he paints himself.

Look at me, for instance.

Why, I could paint you, young gentleman, so that your own mother wouldn't know you.

With a few strokes of the brush I could transform you into a beautiful young girl, or a wrinkled old Jew, or an Artful Dodger, or anything else you had a fancy for.