BOOK XXXV.. An Account of Paintings and Colours.

AN ACCOUNT OF PAINTINGS AND COLOURS.

1. The honour attached to painting 223

2. The honour attached to portraits 224

3. When shields were first invented with portraits upon them; and when they were first erected in public 227

4. When these shields were first placed in private houses ib.

5. The commencement of the art of painting. Monochrome paintings. The earliest painters 228

6. The antiquity of painting in Italy 229

7. Roman painters 230

8. At what period foreign paintings were first introduced at Rome 232

9. At what period painting was first held in high esteem at Rome, and from what causes ib.

10. What pictures the Emperors have exhibited in public 233

11. The art of painting 234

12. Pigments other than those of a metallic origin. Artificial colours 235

13. Sinopis: eleven remedies ib.

14. Rubrica; Lemnian earth: four remedies 236

15. Egyptian earth 237

16. Ochra: remedies derived from rubrica ib.

17. Leucophoron ib.

18. Parætonium 238

19. Melinum: six remedies. Ceruse ib.

20. Usta 239

21. Eretria ib.

22. Sandarach ib.

23. Sandyx 240

24. Syricum ib.

25. Atramentum ib.

26. Purpurissum 242

27. Indicum ib.

28. Armenium: one remedy 243

29. Appianum ib.

30. Anularian white 244

31. Which colours do not admit of being laid on a wet coating ib.

32. What colours were used by the ancients in painting 245

33. At what time combats of gladiators were first painted and publicly exhibited 246

34. The age of painting; with the names of the more celebrated works and artists, four hundred and five in number ib.

35. The first contest for excellence in the pictorial art 248

36. Artists who painted with the pencil 249

37. Various other kinds of painting 268

38. An effectual way of putting a stop to the singing of birds 272

39. Artists who have painted in eucaustics or wax, with either the cestrum or the pencil ib.

40. The first inventors of various kinds of painting. The greatest difficulties in the art of painting. The several varieties of painting. The first artist that painted ceilings. When arched roofs were first painted. The marvellous price of some pictures ib.

41. Encaustic painting 282

42. The colouring of tissues ib.

43. The inventors of the art of modelling 283

44. Who was the first to mould figures in imitation of the features of living persons, or of statues 284

45. The most famous modellers ib.

46. Works in pottery 286

47. Various kinds of earth. The Puteolan dust, and other earths of which cements like stone are made 288

48. Formacean walls 289

49. Walls of brick. The method of making bricks 290

50. Sulphur, and the several varieties of it: fourteen remedies 291

51. Bitumen, and the several varieties of it: twenty-seven remedies 293

52. Alumen, and the several varieties of it: thirty-eight remedies 294

53. Samian earth: three remedies 298

54. The various kinds of eretria ib.

55. The method of washing earths for medicinal purposes ib.

56. Chian earth: three remedies. Selinusian earth: three remedies. Pnigitis: nine remedies. Ampelitis: four remedies 299

57. Cretaceous earths used for scouring cloth. Cimolian earth: nine remedies. Sardinian earth. Umbrian earth. Suxum ib.

58. Argentaria. Names of freedmen who have either risen to power themselves, or have belonged to men of influence 301

59. The earth of Galata; of Clypea; of the Baleares; and of Ebusus 303