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82 POMPEIANA.
from the assistance of the sister art: yet
we find Parrhasius1 painting the work of
Mys on the shield of the brazen Minerva
of the Acropolis of Athens; and the bro-
ther of Phidias, according to Pliny % was
employed in a similar work at Elis.
Tombs in various parts of Asia Minor
observed by the writer have been thus
embellished. Upon a sky-blue ground
figures sculpt in very flat relief, were
covered with minium3: indeed most low
reliefs, not excepting those done under
the eye of Phidias in the Athenian Acro-
polis, were so finished, if not formed for
that express purpose.
Petronius may be referred to for some
idea of the general intention in these
representations upon the sepulchres of
the ancients. The structure being raised,
Trimalchio desires that the likeness of
« Pausanias Attic. 28. 2 H.N. xxxv. 8.
3 And see Pausanias Achaic. 26.
from the assistance of the sister art: yet
we find Parrhasius1 painting the work of
Mys on the shield of the brazen Minerva
of the Acropolis of Athens; and the bro-
ther of Phidias, according to Pliny % was
employed in a similar work at Elis.
Tombs in various parts of Asia Minor
observed by the writer have been thus
embellished. Upon a sky-blue ground
figures sculpt in very flat relief, were
covered with minium3: indeed most low
reliefs, not excepting those done under
the eye of Phidias in the Athenian Acro-
polis, were so finished, if not formed for
that express purpose.
Petronius may be referred to for some
idea of the general intention in these
representations upon the sepulchres of
the ancients. The structure being raised,
Trimalchio desires that the likeness of
« Pausanias Attic. 28. 2 H.N. xxxv. 8.
3 And see Pausanias Achaic. 26.