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Piétores,7.Painters, And the firft who was entituled with that addition painted with his own hand 
the cemple of S'4/#s 5 and this was in the foure hundreth and fiftieth yeare after the foundation of 
our citie: which painting continued to ourage, even unto the cime of ClazdiusCefar the Em- 
perour,in whofe daies the temple it {elfe with the painting, was confumed with fire, Next after 
this,the workinanfhip of Pacuviws the Poét(who likewife painted the chappell of Hercules inthe 
beaft-market at Rome)was highly efteemed and gave much credit to the art. This Pacuviws was 
Ennius the Poéts fifters fonne :and being as hee wasa famous Tragaedian befides, and of great 
name upon the ftage,the excellencie of his {pirit that way, much commended atRome his han- 
dyworke and painting aforefaid, After him, I doe not find that any perfon of worth and qualitie 
tooke penfill in hand and practifed painting, unlefle haply a man would nominat Tarpiliusagen- 
tleman of Rorite in our time,anda Venetian borne,of whofe workmanthip there bee many faire 
parcels of painting extantat this day in Verona: and yet this 7 erpilizs was altogether left han- 
ded, and painted therewith; a thing that I doenoe heare any man did before him. As for Aterius 
Labeo, a noble man of Rome, late lord Pretout, and who otherwile had been vice-Confull in 
Gallia,N arbonenfis or Languedoc,who lived to a very great age & died not long fince, hepra- 
Gifed painting; and all his delight and glorie that he tooke,was in fine and {mall workes ofa lit- 
tle compaffe; howbeit, hee was bur laughed at and {corned for that qualitie, and in his time the 
handicraft grew to be bafe and contemptible. Yet I thinke it not amifle to put downe for the ber. 
tercredic of painters, anotableconfultation held by certaine right honourable perfonages as 
touching the art, and their refolutionin the end. Andthis was the cafe: 2.Pedius, the litle ne- 
phewof 2.Pedius who had been Confull in his time andentred Rome in triumph, him I mean 
whom C.C/ar Ditatour,made co-heire with 4aga/tus,happened to be borne dumbe:and Me/- 
Jota the great Oratour,out of whofe houfe the grandmother of this child was defcended,beeing 
carefull how the boy fhould be brought up; after mature advife and deliberation, thought good 
that he fhould by fignes and imization be trained up in the art of painting,which counfell of his 
was approovedalfo by Auguftus Cafar. And in truth,this young gentlemen beeing apt thereto, 
profitedimarvellous much therein,and died in hisyouth. Butthe principal credit that painters 
attained unto at Rome, was,as I take iz,by the meanes of CU. Valerius Maximus, fir furnamed 
Me(Jalawho being one of the gtand-feigneurs of Rome, was the firftthat propofed to the ew 
of all the world, and fetup ata fide of the ftately hall or court Hoftilia, one picture ina table, 
wherein hee caufed to be painted thar battaile in Sicilie wherein himfelfe had defeated the Car- 
thaginiansand king Aero : which happened in the yeare from the foundation of Rome 4g90.The 
Jike alfo,I muft needs fay, did L.Sc:pio,and hung up a painted table in the Capitol cemple, cons 
taining his viCtorie and conqueft of Afia,whereupon he was furnamed Afiaticvs, Bur(as it ts faid) 
Africanus although he were his owne brother, was highly difpleafed therewith :and good cavie 
he had to be angric and offended, becaufe in that battaile his owne fonne was taken prifoner by 
theenemie, The like offence was taken alfo by Scipio Aemiltanus, againtt Lucius Hostilius Man- 
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cinws,who was the firft that entered perforce the cittie of Carthage 3 forthat hee had caufed to . 
bee fee upin the market place of Rome a faire painted table, wherein was lively drawne the 
ftrong fituation of Carthage, and the warlicke meanes ufedto the affaulting and winning of 
it, together with all the particulars and circumftances thereof : which Mancinus himfelfe in 
pene fitting by the faid piture, de{ciphered from point to point unto the people that came to 
ehold it ; by which courtefie of his hee woon the hearts of the people,infomuch,as atthe next 
election of magiftrates,his popularitie gained him a Confulfhip. In the publicke plaies which 
Claudius Pulcher exhibited at Rome,the painted clothes about the {tage and Theatre (whichre- 
prefented building)brought this art into great admiration :for the workmanfhip was fo artificial 
and lively,that the very ravens in the air,deceived with the likeneffe of houfes, flew thither apace 
for to fettle thereupon, fuppofing verely there had been tiles and crefts indced, And thus much 
concerning painters craft,exercifedinRome. : 
To come now unto forraine pitures, 24, Mammivs,furnamed 2chaicus(for hisconqueft of 
Afia)was the firft man at Rome,who made open fhew of painted tables wrought by ftraungers, 
and caufed them to be of price and eftimation : for when asin the port fale of all the bootie and 
pillage gotten in that vitorie, king 4¢talus had bought one of tham, wrotight bythe hand of 
| “LM. Sefter- Ariffides, containing the piture onely of god Bacchys,which was tocoft him *Lixthoufand Se- 
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flexces,.écmmivs wondering atthe price,andfuppofing that this table had {ome {peciall ante 
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