CONTKNTS. IX 



CHAP. I'ilge 



3. When shields were tirst iuvented with portraits upon them ; 



and when they were first erected iu public . . . . . . 227 



4. When these shields were first placed in private houses . . ib. 



5. The coramenceraent of the art of painting. Monochrome paint- 



ings. The earliest painters . . .. .. .. .. 228 



6. The antiquity of painting in Italy 229 



7. Eonian painters .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 230 



8. At what period foreign paintings were first introduced at Eome 232 



9. At what period painting was first heldiu high esteem at Rome, 



and from what causes. . . . . . . . . . . tb. 



10. What pictures the Emperors have exhibited in public. . . 233 



11. The art of painting .. .. .. .. .. .. 234 



12. Pigments other than those of a metallic origin. Artificial 



colours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 



13. Sinopis : eleven remedies .. .. .. .. .. ib. 



14. Eubrica; Lemnian earth : four remedies .. .. .. 236 



15. Egyptian earth •• .. 237 



16. Ochra : remedies derived from rubrica . . . . • * . . tb. 



17. Leueophoron . . . . . . . . . * * . . ib. 



18. Par^tonium • • . . 238 



19. Melinum : six remedies. Ceruse . . . . * ' . . ib. 



20. Usta • • . . 239 



21. Eretria *• .. ib. 



22. Sandarach .. ib. 



23: Sandyx .. 240 



24. Syricum . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . ib. 



25. Atramentum . . . . . . . . . . . . • . ib. 



26. Purpurissum 242 



27. Indicum . . . . . . ib. 



28. Armenium : one remedy.. .. •• .. •• •• 243 



29. Appianura . . . , . . . . . . . . . . ib. 



30. Anularian white . . . . . . 244 



31. Which colours do not admit of being laid on a wet coating . . ib. 



32. What colours were used by the ancients in painting . . . . 245 



33. At what time combats of gladiators were first painted and pub- 



licly exhibited 246 



34. The age of painting; with the names of the more celebrated 



works and artists, four hundred and five in number . . ib. 



35. The first contest for excellence in the pictorial art . . . . 248 



36. Artists who painted with the pencil .. .. .. .. 249 



37. Various other kinds of painting . . 268 



38. An efi'ectual way of putting a stop to the singing of birds . . 272 

 S9. Artists who have painted in encaustics or wax, with either the 



cestrum or the pencil . . . . . . . . . . . . ib. 



40. The first inventors of various kinds of painting. The greatest 

 difliculties in the art of painting. The several varieties of 

 painting. The first artist that painted ceilings. When 

 arched roofs were first painted. The marvellous price of 



some pictures , . . ;, . . . . . . . . . . ib. 



