Chap. 37.] OTHEE KINDS OF PAINTING. 269 



himself by the choice of his subjects,-^ seeing that, although 

 he adopted an humble walk, he still attained in that walk the 

 highest reputation. His subjects were barbers' shops, cob- 

 blers' stalls, jackasses, eatables, and the like, and to these he was 

 indebted for his epithet of " Rhyparographos."^'^ His paintings, 

 however, are exquisitely pleasing, and have sold at higher 

 prices than the very largest works of many masters. 



On the other hand again, as Yarro tells us, a single picture 

 by Serapio covered the whole space of the balustrades,-^ 

 beneath the Old Shops, ^^ where it was exhibited. This artist 

 was very successful in painting stage-scenery, but was unable 

 to depict the human form. Dionysius,^^ on the contrary, 

 painted nothing but men, and hence it was that he had the 

 surname of " Anthropographos."^® Callicles-'' also painted 

 some small pictures, and Calates executed some small works in 

 the comic style. Both of these styles were adopted by 

 Antiphilus ;^^ who painted a very fine Hesione, and a Philip 

 and Alexander with Minerva, now in the School of the 

 Porticos-^ of Octavia. In the Portico of Philippus,^^ also, 

 there is a Pather Liber^^ by him ; an Alexander when a child ; 

 and an Hippolytus alarmed at the Bull, which is rushing 

 upon him :"- and in the Portico of Pompeius^^ we have his 

 Cadmus and Europa. On the other hand, again, he painted a 



21 He belonged, as Wornura remarks, to the class of genre-painters. 

 or peintres du g&nre has, as the French, term them. His age and country 

 are unknown. 



22 " Painter of low subjects." This term is equivalent in meaning, 

 probably, to our expression — " The Dutch style." 



23 " Mseniana." Balustrades or balconies, said to have been so called 

 from one Msenius, who built them. 



21 See Chapter 8 of this Book. They are mentioned also in the " Curcu- 

 lio" of Plautus, A. iv. s. i. 1. 19. Nothing further is known of Serapio. 



25 His country is unknown, but he is supposed to have lived in the first 

 century b.c. See also Chapter 40 of this Book. 29 <« Painter of men." 



27 Mentioned also by Varro. He probably lived in the time of Alexan- 

 der the Great. 



2^ A native of Egypt, compared by many to the most eminent artists. 

 He is spoken of in high terms by Quintilian, B. xii. c. 10. See also Chap- 

 ter 40 of this Book. 



29 Built by Augustus in the Ninth Region of the City, in honour of his 

 sister Octavia, so gee Chapter 36. 3i Bacchus. 



32 And so caused his death by falling from his chariot. See the " Hippo- 

 lytus" of Euripides. 

 ' 33 Near the Theatre of Pompey, in the Ninth Region of the City. 



