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AUT1ST THAT TAINTED CEILINGS. WHEN AIICUED KOOFS WKHE 

 FIRST PAINTKD. THE MARVELLOUS PBICC OF SOME PICTURES. 



It is said, too, that Famphilus, 49 the instructor of Apellcs, not 

 only painted in encaustic, but also instructed Pausias 50 of Sicyon 

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

 branch. Pausias was the son of 13ryetes, by whom he was 

 originally instructed in the art of painting, lie retouched 

 also with the pencil 51 some walls at Thespian, 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. Jt was he, too, who iirst thought of painting ceilings: 

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

 decoration for arched roofs, lie 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 plow 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," 52 representing the portrait of a child. 



In his youth, lie was enamoured of Glyccra, 63 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 ilowers. At a later period, lie painted her, seated, 

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

 of liis pictures ; known as the " Stepbaneplocoa'** 1 by 

 some, and as the " StephanopolU"** 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 

 ;.s au " 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 Sr<> Chapter SO of thi* Hook. 



* Two paintings of hi* at Kpitiaurus arc mentioned by Pausanias, B. IK 

 o. 27. 



M And not in encaustic ; though, ns \ve shall see in Chapter 41, the brush 

 \vns sometimes used in this brunch. 6J The " One day" picture. 



ftj Sen It. xxi. c. 3. &i The " Chaph-t-wrnrer." tScc K. x\i. c. 3. 



" The^Clmplet-silicr." " A " com-ct" copy. 



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