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0& The manner how to make birds filent, and to leave their chattering aud finging. Who 
firft devifed with fire and pencill to enamell and paint the arched roufes and 
embowed feclings of houfes.T he admirable prices of pictures, 
—— anferted here and there among other matters. 
Ince I have proceeded fo farrein the difcourfe of Painters and their Art, Imuft not forget to 
._) et downea pretie jeft,which hath been reported by many astouching Lepidus - Ichappened 
during the time of his Trivmvirar, that in a certaine place where he was, the magittrars at- 
tended him to his lodging,environed as it were with woods on everie fide :the next morrow Ze- 
pidus took them up for it, and in bitter tearmsand minatorie wordschid them, for that they had 
laid him where hee could notfleepe awincke all night long, for the noifeand finging that the 
birds made about him, They being thus checked and rebuked, devifed againft the nextnight,to 
paintin a peece of parchment of exceeding length, along dragon or ferpent, wherewith they 
compafied the place where Lepidus thould take his repofe : the fight of which ferpentthus pain- 
ted,fo terrified the birds, chat they had no mind to fing, but were altogither filent : by which ex- 
periment atthat time, ic was knowne afterwards that birds by this means might be ftilled, 
Astouching the feat of fetting colours with wax, and * enamelling with fire, who firft began 
and devifed the fame, itis not known, Some are of opinion, that the invention therof came from 
Artftides : aad that Praxiteles practifed the fame, and brought the artof it to an abfolute perfe- 
Etion. But furely there were pictures wrought by fire a good while before C4riftides daies; and 
nainely, by Polygnotus,Nicanor, and Arcefilaus of Paros. Zyfippws alfo in hispainced tables that 
he mace at Aagina, ufed co entitle chem with this inicription, Avornaes tvexevow, 7. Lyfippus 
pained this with fire: which verely he would never have done, if the art of painting fo with fire 
(called Encauftice) had not been before deviled. Moreover, Pamphilus, malterto Apelles, is te- 
ported not onely to have himfelfe practifed this painting with vernith, and toenamell by the 
means of fire, but alfo to have taugheit unto Paufics the Sicyonian, who was the firft that excel- 
led in thiskiad,and caried away the name from all others in his time, This Pamfias was the fonne 
of Brietes, & apprentice alfo to his father at the beginning: he ufedalfo the plaine pencill,wher- 
with he wrougacupon the walls at Thefpiz ; which having been in times paft painted by Polyg- 
nous, were now to berefrefhed and pain:ed new againe by hishand: howbeit, in. comparifon of 
the :ormer worke, he was thoughtto come a great way fhort of Po/ygaotus :andthereafonwas, 
becaufe he dealt in that kind of worke which was not indeed his proper profeffion.He it was that 
brought up firit the devile of painting vaulted roufs ; for never was it the manner to adorne and 
garnith embowed feeling over head with colours, before his time.His delight naturally was to be 
painting of litile cables, and therein he loved to pourtray little boies, Other painters his concur- 
rents,and no well-willers of his,gave itout, That hemade choice of thiskind.of worke, becavfe 
fuch painting went butflowly away,and required no quickeandnimble hand. Whereupon Pas- 
fias, to difproove his adverfaries, and withall co get himfelfea name as well for celeritie and ex- 
pedition, asfor his artand skill otherwife in thefe {mall peeces; began and finifhed in a table the 
picture of a boy, within one day ;and thereupon it was called Hemerefios. In his yourhfull daies 
he fell in fancie with a woman in the fame towne where he dwelt, named Giycera : a fine wit thee 
had of her owne; and efpecially in making chaplets and guirlands of flours ;fhee was full of in- 
vention, Pasfias by his acquaintance with her, and ftriving to imitat with his pencill her handy- 
worke, and to expreffe that varietie of flours which fhe gathered andcouched. cogitherfull arti- 
ficially in het coronets, enriched his owne pi@ures alfo witha number of colours, arid:-brought 
the.art to wonderfull perfection in that point. Inthe end,he painted. G/ycera alfo his love firang, 
with achapletof floures in her hand:and certes, this is the moft excellent peece of worke that 
ever.went out of his fhop: this table with the pi@ture wasthereiipon called by fome; Stepbano- 
pleros,/, [A woman] plaiting andtwifting aguitland »by orhers,Stephanopolis;z,Selling euir- 
lands: for that thisG/ycera got apoore living by making chaplets;and hadno other goodmeans 
to maintaine her felfe. The counter{eittaken from this rableand. made by»it (which kind of pat- 
ternethe Grecks call Apographon) L, Lucullw bought of Dionyfivsapasnter of Athens, andit 
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