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turning with victorie, and triumphing with his Trophee, Hee painted alfoa minfirell weacha G 
playing upona Pfaltrie, and feeming to fing to it; which was thought to beea daintie peece of : 
worke.Asfor Leon he painted Sappho the Poétrefle. And Necwarchis was much broited abroad 
fora picture, fhewing Yenws accompanied with the Graces andthe prettieCupds, And of his 
workemanthip is Hercules fad and penfive : penitent allo and repentant forthatwhich hee had 
done in his furious madnefle. Nealces made one picture of Venus moft curioully : for paffing wit- 
tie he was, full of invention,and exquifit in his art, When he painted the navall batraile between 
the Egyptians andthe Perfians, which was foughtupon the river Nilus, the water whereof is 
rough and like the fea;becaufe hee would have itknowne, that the fight was upon the faid river, 
he devifed another by-worke to exprefle the fame, which all the art of painting otherwife could 
not performe: for he painted an Affe upon the banke, drinking at the river,and a Crocodilely~ fy 
ing in wait to catch him: whereby any man might foone knowit was the river Nilus,and no other 
water, Ocwias the painter made one piGture above the reft, which he called Syngenscus, Philifcus 
became renowned by a painters (hop of his painting, where hee devifed a prentice boy blowing 
the coalestokindlea fire. Phalerion pourtraied Scylla,transformed into a monftrous Meremaid. 
Simenides got credit by the picture of Agatharrhus,who woon the beft game at running: and of 
the goddeffe of Memorie,named Msemofyne, Sims took pleafure in painting a yong man lying 
afleepe in a waulke-mill or Fullers worke-houfe : another facrificing unto Jénerva atthe featt 
Luinguatrus : & of the fame mans doing, there is an excellent picture of Nemefis,reprefenting” 
Tuftice and Revenge. T 4eodorus drew one {netting hisnofe : and the fame painter reprefented 
in atable, how Oreffes murdered his owne mother Ciytemnefira, and Acgyfthusthe adulterer J 
that kept her. The warre of Troy hee depainted in many feverall tables:and thefe hangin the 
galleries of Philp at Rome, Of his handyworke is ladie Ca/fiadva the Prophetefle, which is 
to beefeene in the chappell of Concord, Alfo, Leontium the courtifane belonging to Epicurus 
and his followers, was of his painting; like asking Demerrivs mufing and {tanding ina deepe 
ftudie . As for Theon the painter, hee defcribed with his penfill the madnefle of Oveftes, and 
pourtraied Tzmyras the Harper or Mufician. Taarifews made one table, reprefenting a man 
flinging acoit: and another refembling queene Clytemueftra, Hee pictured alfo a little Pans 
whom hee called Panai{cws,in manner of an Anticke: Po/ynices alfo making claime to his king- 
dome,and marching in warlicke manner to recover the poffeffion thereofagaine: and latt of all, 
fignieur Capanexs, who loft his lifein skaling the walls of Thebes. And here commeth to my K 
mind one notable example as touching Evtgonas,which I cannot paffe with filence:This Erigo- 
nus, (ervant fometime to Nealces the Painter, and employed onely in grinding colours,profited 
{o much by feeing his maifter worke, that hee became a painter himfelfe,and left behind him an 
excellent workeman of hisowne teaching, Pau/ias, brother to Aegineta the Imageur. But one 
thing morethere is, of rare admiration and worthie to bee remembred, That the laft peeces of 
excellent Painters, and namely fuch tables asbee left unperfea, are commonly beter-eftee- 
med chan thofe that bee fully finifhed: as wee may fee by the Raine-bow or Iris which 474/l- 
des wasentered into ; the two brethren Ca/lor and Pollx, begun by Nicomachus ; the picture 
of izedea, killing the children that (hee had by Jafon, which Timomachus wasin hand with; and 
the Venus, that as I faid before, Apelies lived not to make an end of : forin thefeand fuch like J 
imperfeét tables, a man may (as itwere) fee whattraicts and lineaments remaine to bee done, 
as alfo the very defleignes and cogitations of the artificers: and as thele beginnings are at- 
tractive allurements to moove us forto commend thofe hands that began fuch dravghts : fo 
the conceit, that they bee now dead and miffing, is no {mall greefe unto us, when wee behold 
them fo raw and fore-let. But to come againe unto our Painters: there bee more yet behind,and 
thofe of very good regard intheirtime, howbeit, I will run them overflightly, and as it were 
pafling and glauncing by them, namely, 47iffonides, Anaxander, Ariftobulus the Syrian, Ar- | 
cefilas the fonne of Tificrates, Corybas apprentice to Nicomachus , Carmanides to Euphranor, © 
Diomyfedorws the Colophonian, Dzogenes who followed the court of king Demetrius, Euthy- 
medes, Heraclides the Macedonian, Mydon of Solz brought up under Pyromachus the Ima- 
geur, Muafilheus of Sicyone, Muafithemus the fonne of Ariffonides, who was apprentice likes 
wife unto him, and Ne//s the fonne of C4 bron, Polemon of Alexandria, Theodorus of Samos, 
and Stodius (all three trained under Necofthenes) and Xenon of Sicyone, who learned his craft . 
of Neocles.- 
Moreo. 
