Chap. 37.] OTHER KISDS OF PAINTING. 269 



himself bj' the choice of his subjects, 21 seeing that, although 

 ho 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."' 2 -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 Sorapio covered the whole space of the balustrades, 23 

 beneath the Old Shops,' 1 where it was exhibited. This artist 

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

 to depict the human form. Dionysius,- 4 on the contrary, 

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

 surname of " Aiithropographos.*' 26 Callicles* 7 also painted 

 some small pictures, and dilates executed some small works iti 

 the comic style. Both of these styles were adopted by 

 Antiphilus ;** who painted a very fine llesione, and a Philip 

 and Alexander with Minerva, now in the School of the 

 Porticos'-'" of Octavia. In the Portico of Pliilippus,^ also, 

 there is a Father Liber 31 by him ; an Alexander when a child ; 

 and an Hippolytus alarmed at the Hull, which is rushing 

 upon him: 3 - and in tho Portico of Pompeius w we have his 

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



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

 or print res tltt genre /></*, iu> 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." 



u u Mfeniana." Balustrades or balconies, said to have been so culled 

 from one M;i-niu% who built them. 



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

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



* 5 His country is unknown, but ho is supposed to have lived in the iirst 

 century w.c. See also Chapter 40 of this Book, ^ ** Painter of men." 



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

 der the Great. 



2s A native of Eprypt, compared by ninny to the most eminent nrtists. 

 He is spoken of in high terms by Quintiliun, 13. xii. c. 10. See also Chap- 

 ter -10 of this Hook. 



29 lluilt by Augustus in the Ninth Ro^ion of the City, in honour of bU 

 sfstor Ortavia. Co See Chapter ,'JG. 31 Itacchus. 



32 And HO caused his death by fulling from his chariot. See the " JJippo- 

 lytus" of Euripides. 

 " M Near the Theatre of Fompey, in the Ninth Region of the City. 



