antsts. 



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Nicomachus, Charmantides, the pupil of Euphranor, 

 Dionysodorus of Colophon, Dicaeogenes resident 

 at the court of King Demetrius,'^ Euthymides, tlie 

 Macedonian Heraclides and Milon of Soli, pupils of 

 Pyromachus, the sculptor of the human figure, 

 Alnasitheus of Sicyon, Mnasitimus the son and pupil 

 of Aristonides, Nessus son of Habron, Polemo of 

 Alexandria, Theodorus of Samos and Stadius, both 

 pupils of Nicosthenes. Xenon of Sicyon. pupil of 

 Neocles. 



There have also been women artists — Timarete the Women 

 daughter of Micon Vvho painted the extremely 

 archaic panel picture of Artemis at Ephesus, Irene 

 daughter and pupil of the painter Cratinus who 

 did the Maiden at Eleusis, a Calypso,'' an Old 

 Man and Theodorus the Juggler, and painted also 

 Alcisthenes the Dancer ; Aristarete the daughter 

 and pupil of Nearchus, who painted an Asclepius. 

 When Marcus Varro was a young man, laia ofii6-26B.c. 

 Cyzicus, who never married, painted pictures with 

 the brush at Rome (and also drew with the cestrum 

 or graver ^ on ivory), chiefly portraits of women, as 

 well as a large picture on wood of an Old Woman at 

 Naples, and also a portrait of herself, done with a 

 looking-glass. No one else had a quicker hand 

 in painting, while her artistic skill was such that in 

 the prices she obtained she far outdid the most 

 celebrated portrait painters of the same period, 

 Sopolis and Dionysius, whose pictures fill the 

 galleries. A certain Olympias also painted ; the 



^ Or, if Calypso is the name of a •svoman artist, . . . 

 'Eleusis, Calypso, who painted an Old Man . . .'. 



'^ The ce^tiram was, it seems, a graver, spoon-shaped at one 

 end (for holding coloiirs over heat), and with the handle-end 

 thickened or flattened out for levelling the colours. 



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