[2037] Sir Joshua Reynolds discovers in the account here given “an artist-like description of the effect of glazing, or scumbling, such as was practised by Titian and the rest of the Venetian painters.”—Notes to Du Fresnoy.
[2038] “Lapis specularis.” See B. xxxvi. c. [45].
[2039] He was son of Aristodemus, and brother and pupil of Nicomachus, in addition to Euxenidas, already mentioned in this Chapter. He, Pausanias, and Nicophanes, excelled, as we learn from Athenæus, B. xiii., in the portraits of courtesans; hence their name, πορνόγραφοι.
[2040] It has been well remarked by Wornum, in the article so often quoted, that “expression of the feelings and passions cannot be denied to Polygnotus, Apollodorus, Parrhasius, Timanthes, and many others.”
[2041] See B. iv. c. 12.
[2042] Meaning, “Her who has ceased” to live. The reference is to Byblis, who died of love for her brother Caunus. See Ovid’s Metam. B. ix. l. 455, et seq.
[2043] Or Bacchus. Already mentioned in Chapter [8] of this Book, in reference to the Roman general Mummius.
[2044] In the Eleventh Region of the City.
[2045] In the Tenth Region of the City.
[2046] Celebrated on the 3rd of July.