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A exander the Great andK, Darizs, which for exquific art commeth not behind any other what- G 
foever.One picture there is of his doing wherein he would feeme to depaint Lafcivious wanton- 
nefle,which he pourtraied by three drunken Sylenes making merrie and banketting togither.ie 
gave himfelfe alfo to the {peedie workemanthip of hisimafter before him, and for that purpofe 
invented other compendious means of greater brevitic to make riddance and quicke-difpatch 
with his pencil. | 
With thefe may be forted Nicophanes alfo, a proper, feat, and fine workeman, whofe mannet 
was to take out old pictures and paint chem new againe, thereby as it were to immortalize the 
“memorie of things: a running hand he had of his owne, and befides was by nature haftie and fu- 
rious :howbeit, for skill and cunning there were but few comparable unto him. In all his workes 
he aimed at loftinefle and gravitie : fo that a man may attribute the ftately port chat isin this art, 
unto him and no other, ay bah : Has oat 
Astouching Perféws (apprentice to Apelles,8¢ wrote a book unto him ofthe very Art)he came 
far fhort both of his mafter 8¢alfo of Zewxis, As for Aristides the Theban,who alfolived inthis 
age,he brought up under him histwo fonnes, Nacerosand Aviftippus. This ariflippes pourtraied 
a Satyre crowned with a chaplet,and carying a goblet or drinking cup:he taught Aw/somdes and 
Euphrawor his cunning; of whome | will write anon : for meetit isto annex unto the reft,fuch as 
have been famous with the pencill in fimaller works and lefler pitures :among whoime | may rec- 
kon Pyreicvs who for art and skill had not many that went before him: and verely of this man,| 
wot not well, whether hee debafed himfelfé and bare alow faile, of purpofe ornae for furely his - 
mind was wholly fet upon painting of fimple and bafe things: howbeit,in that humble and lowly 
carriage of himfelfe, hee attained to a name of glorie in the higheft degree:his delight was to 
paintihops, of barbers, (homakers,coblers,taylers,and femfters: hee had a good hand in pour- 
traying of poore affes, with the victuals that they bring to market, and fuch homely ftufie: wher- 
by heegathimfelfe a by-name, and was called Rbyparegraphus. Howbcit, fuch rude and fimple 
toies as thefe were fo artificially wrought, that they pleafed & contented the beholders,no tiung 
fo much, Many chapmen he had for thefe trifling peeces, and’a greater price they yeelded unto 
him, than the faireft and largeft tables of many others. Whereas contrariwile, Serapion ufedta 
nyake fuch great and goodly pictures, that (as M@. Varro writeth) they were ableto take up and fill 
all the ftalls bulks,and fhops, jutting forth iaco the {treet under the old market-place Roftra. This 
Serap:on had an excellent grace in pourtraying tents, booths,ftages,and theatres ; butto painta 
man ora woman, he knew not which way to begin, Onthe other fide, Dionyfws was good at no- 
thing elle, and therefore hee was commonly called 4athropagraphus, Moreover, Calitcles alfo 
occupied himfelfe in {niall works:and Calaces fet his mind efpecially upon little tables & pictures 
which were to fetout comeedies aud enterludes : but Amtiphilus practifed both the one and the 
other;for hee pictured the noble ladie Hefione,. Alexander the Great, and Ph:lip the king bis 
father,with the goddefle Minerva : which tables hang in the Philofophers {choole or walking- 
place within the ftately galleries of OcZavia,where the learned clerks and gentlemen favourers of 
learning, were woont to meet and converfe. Within the galleries alfo of Philippws thereare to 
be feen, the piGture of prince Bacchus, the pourtrait of C4 lexander in his childhood,and of Ayp- 
politus the young gentleman, affrighted and aftonied atthe fight of a monftrous bull Jet loole » 
and readie to encounter him. Likewife in the gallerie of Pompey,the counterfeits of Cadmus and 
Europa; all,pictures of Axtsphilus his making, Of his handyworke,there is a foole,with his bell, 
cockscombe,bable, and in other ridicylous habit,going under the name of Gi ylis, devifed for 
the nonesto make {port and paftime: wherupon all fuch foolifh pictures be called Grylly.Him- 
felfe was borne in Egypt, howbeit hee learned all his cunning of Crefidemus. In this bedroll of 
painters, I fhould not doe well to paffe over in filence, the workeman that painted the temple of 
Juno at Ardea,efpecially feeing that he was enfranchifed free burgeois of that cittic,and honou- 
red befides with an Epigram or Tetraftichon, remaining yet tobe readinthe midsof his pic- 
tures in thefe foure Hexameter verfes following : | 
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Dignis digna loca picturis concolebnawit,- 
Regina lunonis fupremi conjigistemplum 
Marcus Ludtus Elotas Fito.ia orinndus 
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