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of Plinies Naturall Hiftorie. 
Moreover,women there were alfo.excellent*Painrrefles,to wit;7/marere,the daughter of N:- 
com, who made that excellent pourtraiture of Diana atEphefus, amoft antique picture : Irene 
the daughter of Cratwsws the painter who learned under her father, & drew the picture of a yong 
damofell which is at Eleufine:Ca/yp/o,0f whofe workemanthip there is the picture of an oldiman, 
and of Thzodorus the juglar: 4/cifthene painted adauncer: and Aviflavere, both daughter and ap- 
prentife to Nesrchws,made proofe how well the had profited by rhe piGture of 4efcw.apims. And 
Marcus Varro faith, That when hee was a young man, there was at Rome one Z4/a, a Cyzecene 
borne,who pa fled her whole life in virginitie; and the was skiltull both in painting wich the pen- 
fill,and alfo in enamelling with hote ftcele in yvorie : her delight was principally in drawing wo- 
men; and yet there is a Neapolitane of her pourtraying in a faire long table: lalt of all,fhe tooke 
out her own counterfeit at a mirroir or looking glaffe. This one thing is reported of her, That no 
painter had a quicker hand or went fafter away with his worke than {hee :and looke what pictures 
foever came out of her hands,they were fo artificially done,that they did our. fell agreac deale the 
workes of Sopylos and Dionyfivs(the moft famous painters in that age)notwith{tanding their pt- 
tures and tables were fo faire, as that they take up whole cabinets; and well was hee(before that 
her pictures came abroad) who could be furnifhed out of their twofhops. There was yet one 
5k 
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ow tohandle 
the penGil. 
paintreffe more,to wit,O/mpias:howbeit] heare no great matter of her,buc this onely,that hee — 
taught dutodulus the art of painting. : 
~ Tocome now unto painting by the meanes of fire: I find this agreed upon by all that practi- 
fed it was in old time but two waies onely, that is to fay,with wax,and in yvorie with a litle fteele 
or punching yron; untill fuch time as they fell to painting fhips alfo with wax and fire : and in 
this third fort the manneris to ufe great penfils or brufhes dipt in wax molten over the fire. And 
this kind of painting thips is fo faft and fure,that neither funne will refolve, nor fale water eat and 
fret,ne yet wind and weather pierce and chinke it. - 
Moreover, in Asgypt they have a devife to ftaine cloths after a {trang and wonderfull maner : 
They take white cloties,as failes or curtaines when they have beene worne, which they befmeare 
not with colours but with certaine drougs that are aptto drinke and take colour: when they have 
fo done,there is no apparencein chem atall of any die or tinGture. Thefe clothes they caft into a 
lead or cauldron of fome colour that is feething and f{calding hote: where, after they have remai- 
ned a pretie while,they take them forth againe,all {tained and painted in fundrie colours.An ad- 
mirable thing, that there being in the faid cauldron but onely onekind of tindture,yet out of it 
the cloth fhouldbe ftained with this and that colour, and the forefaid boiling liquor chaunge fo 
as it doth,according tothe qualitie and nature of the drougs which were laid upon the white at 
firft. Andverely,thele ftaines or coloursare fetfo {ure,as they can never be wathed off afterwards. 
Thus thefcalding liquor,which no doubtif it had diverfe tinctures and colours in it,would have 
confounded them allinto one: now out of one doth difpente and digeft them accordingly, and 
iit boiling the drougs of the cloths,fetteth the colour and ftaineth furely. And verely, this good 
moreover have the clothes by chis fealding that they be alwaies more firme and durable, than if 
they had not come into the boiling cauldren. 
Cap. X11 
O& The first devilers of the art of Potterie, and in working in cley.Of limages made of 
earth Of earthen velfels and their value in old time, 
® ] Owthat! have difcourfed of painting ynough, ifnot too much, it were good to annex 
&y and joine thereto the craft of Potterie and working out of cleysAnd to begin with the ori- 
ginall and invention of making the image or likenefle of any thing incley, ic isfaid, That 
Dibutades,a Sicyonian borne anda Potter,was the firft that devifed at Corinth toform an image 
in the fame cley whereof he nade his pots, by the occafion and meanes of adaughter which hee 
had: who being in love with acertaine young man,whenfoever hee was to take a long journey fat 
from home,ufed ordinarily to marke upon the wallthe fhaddow of her lovers face bycandle light 
and to pourfill the fame afterwards deeper,that fo fhee might enjoy his vifage yet in his abfence. 
This her father perceiving followedthofe trats,and by clapping cley thereupon, perceived that 
it cooke a print,and made afenfible forme of a face: which when heefaw, hee put itintothe fure 
haceto bake among other veffels and when it was hardened, fhewed it abroad. And itis faid that 
this 
