Chap. 40.] INVENTOES OF ENCAUSTIC PAINTING. 2/3 



AE.TIST THAT PAINTED CEILINGS. WHEN AKCHED liOOFS WEBE 

 FIEST PAINTED. THE MARVELLOUS PEICE OF SOME PICTURES. 



It is said, too, that Pamphilus,"*^ the instructor of Apelles, not 

 onl}^ painted in encaustic, but also instructed Pausias^" of Sicyon 

 in the art, the first who rendered himself distinguished in this 

 branch. Pausias was the son of Bryetes, by whom he was 

 originally instructed in the art of painting. He retouched 

 also with the penciP^ some walls at Thespiae, then undergoing 

 repair, which had formerly been painted by Polygnotus. Upon 

 instituting a comparison, however, it was considered that he 

 was greatly inferior, this kind of painting not being in his 

 line. It was he, too, who first thought of painting ceilings : 

 nor had it been the practice before his day to use this kind of 

 decoration for arched roofs. He painted many small pictures 

 also, miniatures of children more particularly ; a thing which, 

 according to the interpretation put upon it by his rivals, was 

 owing to the peculiarly slow process of encaustic painting. 

 The consequence was, that being determined to give a memo- 

 rable proof of his celerity of execution, he completed a picture 

 in the space of a single day, which was thence called the 

 *' Hemeresios,"^^ representing the portrait of a child. 



In his youth, he was enamoured of Glycera,"^ his fellow- 

 townswoman, the first inventor of chaplets ; and in his rivalry 

 of the skill shown by her, he achieved so much success in the 

 encaustic art, as to reproduce the almost numberless tints dis- 

 played by flowers. At a later period, he painted her, seated, 

 with a chaplet on, and thus produced one of the very finest 

 of his pictures ; known as the " Stephaneplocos"°^ by 

 some, and as the " Stephanopolis"^^ by others ; from the circum- 

 stance that Glycera had supported herself in her poverty by 

 selling these chaplets. A copy of this picture, usually known 

 as an " apographon,"*" was purchased by L. Lucullus at Athens, 

 during the festival of the Dionysia, at the price of two talents. 



Pausias also painted some large pictures, a Sacrifice of Oxen, 

 for instance, which used to be seen in the Portico of Pom- 



49 See Chapter 36 of this Book. 



^•^ Two paintings of his at Epidaurus are mentioned by Pausanias, B. ii. 

 c. 27. 



■ =^ And not in encaustic ; though, as we shall see in Chapter 41, the brush 

 was sometimes used in this branch. ^- The " One day" picture. 



53 See B. xxi. c. 3. si '['i-^q a Chaplet- wearer." See B, xxi. c. 3. 



*5 The " Chaplet-scller." ^s A " correct" copy. 



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