BOOK XXXV. xL. 126-I2Q 



Next, whereas all painters ordinarily execute in 

 light colour the parts they wish to appear prominent 

 and in dark those they wish to keep less obvious, 

 this artist has made the whole ox of a black colour 

 and has given substance to the shadow from the 

 shadow itself, with quite remarkable skill that shows 

 the shapes standing out on a level surface and a 

 uniform solidity on a broken ground." Pausias also 

 passed his life at Sicyon, which was for a long period 

 a native place of painting. But all the pictures 

 there had to be sokl to meet a debt of the com- 

 munity, and were removed from the ownership of 

 the state to Rome by Scaurus as aedile. 56 b.c. 



After Pausias,^ Euphranor the Isthmian distin- Euphranor. 

 guished himself far before all others, in the 104th 3G4-361 b.c. 

 Olympiad ; he has also appeared in our account of xxxiv, 50. 

 statuaries. His works included colossal statues, 

 works in marble, and reliefs, as he was exceptionally 

 studious and diligent, excelling in every field and 

 never falling below his own level. This artist 

 seems to have been the first fully to represent the 

 lofty qualities of heroes, and to have achieved good 

 proportions, but he was too slight in his structure of 

 the whole body and too large in his heads and joints.<^ 

 He also wrote books about proportions and about 

 colours. Works of his are a Cavah-y Battle, ^ the 

 Twelve Gods, and a Theseus, in respect of which 

 he said that Parrhasius's Theseus had lived on a diet 

 of roses, but his was a beef-eater. There is a cele- 

 brated picture by him at Ephesus, Odysseus Feigning 

 Madness and yoking an ox with a horse, with men in 

 cloaks reflecting, and the leader sheathing his sword. 



and the next two pictures were both in the Stoa of Zeu3 

 Eleutherios at Athens. Paus. I, 3, 3-4. 



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