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det of Diasa of Ephefus,was of his painting: like as at Athens,the Neécromncie ofthéPoét Ho. G 
mer. This picture Nicias heldat fo high a price, that he would not letit gece unto K. Attal for 60 
salents,but chofe rather to beftowit freely upon his native countrey,being otherwifea man for — 
his owne privateftate very wealthie. Over and above thefe before reheatfed,he made others of a 
larger fize,among which are reckoned Calyp/o,J6,and the lady Andromeda. The excellent picture 
alfo of king Alexander which isin the gallerie of Pompeiws, together withCalyp/o painted fitting, 
came out of his fhop. The perfect pourtraying of foure-foored beatts,is afcribed unto him; and 
in truth,a fingular grace he had and felicitie in painting dogs. This is that Wicéas,of whom Praxi- 
teles gave {o good teftimonie: for being asked the queftion upon a time, What peeces hee eftee- 
» med beft of allthofe which himfelfe had cut in marble? he anfwered, Even thofe,wherein Nicias 
“circumlitioni: hath had ahand:fo much did he attribute unto his*vernifhand polifhing.A nother Wicéas there 
others read was, who lived in the 112 Olympias: but whether this man were hee or no, itis not for certaine 
ithe frftt - knowne: howbeit,fome there be that would have him tobee the fame.Certes, Atheman of Ma- — 
Sraugiror ona, was taken for as good a workeman evety way as Néciasjand in fome tefpedts berter. He lear- 
pourtlinge ned the art of Glaacion the Corinthian:In choife of his colours,he ftood not fo muchupon gal- 
Jantneffe, but ufed thofe that were with the faddeft :howbeir,thofe darkeand fhaddowed works of 
his,{hewed more pleafant & delectable than his maifters: whereby appeared his profoundknow- 
ledge and deepe skill, in the very laying and couching of his colours. The pi€ture of Philarchus 
hee drew, which is in the temple of Ceres Eleafine : the frequent aflemblie alfo of thedaines of 
Athens,which they called Polyeynecon, was of his pourtraying : likewife, he reprefented Achilles 
in his youth, hidden under the habit ofa young damofell,and how the ctaftie fox Vlixes difcove- 
red and found him out,notwithftanding he was fo difguifed. But one table above the reft woon 
him the greateft credit, and that was,wherein hee painted a horfekeeper,training and nurturing 
his palfrey. Certes, but chat hee died in hisyouth, there had not been a painterin all the world 
comparable unto him. ; | 2 : 
_ As touching Heraclides the Macedonian, he alfo ray tun in the raunge of famoiis painters. _ 
At the beginning she employed himfelfe in painting thips: afterthat-king Perfers was taken pri- 
foner,he left his native countrey and wentto Athens, where lived at that time CMerrodorus; a 
Painter and Philofopher both, a man of greatnamte and authoritie as well in the one profeffion 
as the other: andtherefore, when Z.Pavlws,after the defeature of the faid Perfews, fentunto the 
Athenians,and requefted them to fend unto him an excellent Philofopher to teach & inftruct 
his children,together with. a fingulat painter for to fet out his triumph with curious pictures, the 
Attenians madechoice of -Ate/rodorus onely, and commended him alone unto Lucius Pate 
tus, forthe beft approovedand moft confummat to férve his turne and fatisfie both his defires: 
which by good proofe and experience, Paulus found true, and gave judgement of him accore 
dingly. , 
Timomachus the Bizantine flourifhed in the dayes of Ce/ar DiGtatour, for whom hee painted 
Ajax and Medea : which pi@tures when he bought of him for eightie talents, he caufed to bee 
*This Saint fu. hung up in the temple of Venus *Genetrix, Now when I fpeake of atalent,youmuft underftand 
liuscafarho- the Atticketalent,which .4./a7rodooth value at fixe thoufand deniers Romane. There goath as 
ee pots great praife and commendation likewife of other peeces that pafled from under the hands of 
would Blas Timomachus, to wit, the pictures of Oreffes; of Iphizeniain Tauris and of one Lecyibion, who 
to be defcen- 
Fac from fli taught youths dauncing, vaulting, and other feats of aGtivitie: hee pourtraied alfo ina table, a 
or Afeaninxfon ZOOUly race,defcent,and kinred of gentlemen : two perfons befidesin thit'clokes or mantles, af. 
of Zneas, and ter the Greekith fafhion,readie to make a {peech untothe people; the one fet, the other ftanding 
fee enn upon the feet: but it eemed that art favoured and graced him moft,in painting Minervees fhield, 
where he pourtraied Gorgon or Medufaes head moftlively. Cyl Ot Be eee y a 
_ Arificlaws was the fonne of Paufias and under his father he learned the niyfterie of painting: 
who is counted one ofthe graveft painters that ever were:Of his workmanfhip are the tables con- 
taining the pictures of Epaminondas, Pericles, Medea,Vertue,& Thefens : He drew alfo with his pen- 
fill in colours,the common people of Athens,and a folemne facrifice of oxen. BRS V 
_ There was alfo one Mechopanes,apprentife likewife unto the fame Paufias,whois highly con 
mended by fome for his curious and exquifit workemanthip: burfuchit is; asnone bur cunning 
artificers can conceive, for otherwife I affure 
on toomuch of one thing,and that was Sil. 
you, his colours are unplealant, and he loved to-lay 
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