Perry, Walter Copland: Greek and Roman sculpture: a popular introduction to the history of Greek and Roman sculpture (London, 1882)

596 EXTANT WORKS OF THE ROMAN PERIOD.

covered head. The design is supposed to be borrowed from the picture
of Timanthes (about 400 B.C.), the rival of Zcuxis 1 and Parrhasius,2
whose work was so highly celebrated by ancient writers. ' For when,'
says Ouintilian, ' Timanthes, the Cynthian, in his Immolation of
Iphigenia, had painted Calchas sad, Ulysses sadder, and had repre-
sented in the face of Menelaus the most poignant grief that art can
express ; having exhausted the deepest feelings {cousiimptis affcctilms),
and finding no means of worthily pourtraying the countenance of the
fatJier, he covered his head and left it to every man's own heart to
estimate his sufferings.'3

1 Plin. N. II. xxxv. 64. Cic. Oral. xxii. 74. Valer. Max. viii. 11.

= Ibid. xxxv. 71. Eustath. ad 11. p. 1343. 60.

' Qnintfl. Inst. Orat. ii. 13. 12. Conf.