Cbap. 30.] AHTISTS WHO PAINTED WITH THE PENCIL. 249 



the date of the origin of painting. After these, and yet 

 before the ninetieth Olympiad, there were other celebrated 

 painters, Polygnotus of Thasos, 1 for instance, who was the 

 first to paint females in transparent draper)', aid to represent 

 the head covered with a parti-coloured head-dress. lie, too, 

 was the first to contribute many other improvements to the 

 art of painting, opening the mouth, for example, showing the 

 teeth, and throwing expression into the countenance, in place 

 of the ancient rigidity of the features. 



There is a picture by this artist in the Portico 2 of Pompeius, 

 before the Curia that was built by him ; with reference to 

 which, there is some doubt whether the man represented with 

 a shield is in the act of ascending or descending. Ho also 

 embellished the Temple 3 at Delphi, and at Athens the Portico 

 known as the Poocile ; 4 at which last he worked gratuitously, 

 in conjunction with Mieon,* who received pay for his labours. 

 Indeed Polygnotus was held in the higher esteem of the two; 

 for the Amphictyons,' who form the general Council of Greece, 

 decreed that he should have his lodgiug furnished him at the 

 public expense. 



There was also another Micon, distinguished from the first 

 ^[icon by tho surname of " the younger," and whoso daughter 

 Timareto 7 also practised tho art of painting. 



CHAP. 36. AHTISTS WHO TAINTED WITH THE PENCIL. 



In the ninetieth Olympiad lived Aglaophon, 8 Cephisodorus, 

 Erillus, and Evenor, the father of Parrhasius, one of the 



1 Sco B. vii. c. 57. (Vol. II. p. 233), when) he is mentioned as an Athe- 

 nian. It is not improbable that lie became a.citfren of Athens in the seventy, 

 ninth Olympiad, B.C. 463, when Thasos was brought under the power of 

 Athens, and, as Sillig suggests, at tho solicitation of Cimon, the son of 

 Miltiudcs. It is generally supposed that he flourished about the eightieth 

 Olympiad. 



Monging to the Theatre of Ponipcy, in the Ninth Region of the City. 



3 "With scenes from the Trojan War, and the adventures of Ulysses. * 



4 Or ** Variegated ;" from iu various pictures. 5 See B. xxx'iii. c.56*. 

 6 See li. vii. c. 37. 7 She is again mentioned in Chapter 40. 

 9 lie was a native of Thasos, ami father and instructor of Polygnotus. 



As IMiny has already stated that Polvgnotus flourished before the ninetieth 

 Olympiad, there is an inconsistency in his making mention of the son as 

 nourishing before the fath.-r. Hence JSillig, with iJottiger, is inclined to 

 think that there were two artists of this namo, one about the seventieth, 

 and tho other about the ninetieth Olympiad, the former being the father 

 of Polygnotui* 



