BUPALUS.

THE great work of this artist was a figure of Juno; but he is yet more memorable from the following anecdote. He painted a caricature of Hipponax, a celebrated writer of satires. In return the poet addressed a lampoon to Bupalus, so exceedingly bitter, that he went and hanged himself. Our Hogarth indulged the same propensity with respect to Churchill; and if report be entitled to credit, the effect was almost as fatal. It is certainly said, that after the Epistle to a Painter appeared, it made an impression upon Hogarth, of which he never got the better. So true is the old adage, that he whose house is made of glass should never throw stones.

CALLIMACIUS.

THIS statuary was held in very high estimation by the antients. His great work is specified by Pausanias. It was a Juno in a sitting attitude, in the temple of Juno, at Platæa, His great distinc

tion was grace, in which he is said to have excelled Phidias. Dionysius of Halicarnassus observes, that Phidias was admired for the dignity of his compositions; but Callimachus ενεκα της χάριτος for grace. He was also much praised by Pliny.

CANACHUS

Was very much admired, although, in the opinion of Cicero, his outline was hard. He ranked, however, very high as a statuary. Of the three Muses, celebrated by Antipater, in the Greek Anthology, one was the work of Canachus. His chief performance was a Venus of gold and ivory, in a sitting posture. This is mentioned by Pausanias. He was a pupil of Polycletus.

CHARES.

THE celebrated Colossus of Rhodes, which was seventy cubits high, was the performance of this statuary, who was the pupil of Lysippus. This wonder of the world occasioned Chares to be cele

brated in verse and prose, by almost every eininent writer of antiquity. Pliny describes the Colossus with particular minuteness, .1. xxxiv. c. 7. The reader should, however, be forewarned, that there exists some doubt whether the name of the artist was not Laches. There is an epigram in the Anthology ascribed to Simonides, which affirms that the Colossus of Rhodes was not seventy but eighty cubits; and says, Asemater Its height as well as substance must have been enormous, for when it was overthrown by an earthquake, a Jew merchant bought the broken fragments of brass, and was obliged to employ 900 camels to remove them.

CHERSIPHRon.

THIS man also has descended to posterity as the architect of that stupendous fabric the Temple of Diana, at Ephesus. This is asserted on the authority of Pliny, who describes the temple as having been four hundred and twenty five feet in length, and two hundred and

twenty feet wide. It had a hundred and twenty seven columns, each of which was sixty feet high. The name is sometimes written CHERSIPHON.

CYDIAS.

THE Roman orator Hortensius had in his Tusculan villa a picture by this artist, representing the Argonautic expedition, for which he gave the enormous sum of one hundred and forty-four thousand sesterces. This picture afterwards came into the hands of Agrippa, who placed it in the portico of the temple of Neptune, in commemoration of his naval victories.

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CICERO was also a great encourager of the art of painting, and possessed a great number of exquisite pictures at his villa. It is to be much regretted that, although in his familiar epistles, he often speaks with warmth of his love of the art, he does not specify any of the pictures which he possessed. There is a whole epistle on thissubject. 1. vii. ep. 29.

Speaking of the vestibule of his villa, · Ea volebam tabellis exornare,

he says,

etenim si quid generis istiusmodi me delectat, pictura certo delectat.'

THE whole epistle is well worth the reader's attention.

DEMOPHON.

OR, as the name is sometimes written, Damophon, is repeatedly mentioned by Pausanias. He was a most distinguished sculptor. The principal of his performances were, the figures of Venus and Mercury, in wood; Cybele, in Parian marble; Esculapius and Hygeia ; Ceres, in marble.

DIPENUS

Deserves mention here, as being, in the opinion of Pliny, the first who made statues from the solid marble.

He was engaged with Scyllis on some statues of the gods, for the Sicyonians.