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The History of Rome. Book IIIPlastic Art and Painting Of Roman plastic art we scarcely encounter any other trace than, perhaps, the embossing in wax of the images of ancestors. Painters and painting are mentioned somewhat more frequently. Manius Valerius caused the victory which he obtained over the Carthaginians and Hiero in 491 off Messana[74] to be depicted on the side wall of the senate-house - the first historical frescoes in Rome, which were followed by many of similar character, and which were in the domain of the arts of design what the national epos and the national drama became not much later in the domain of poetry. We find named as painters, one Theodotus who, as Naevius scoffingly said, Sedens in cella circumtectus tegetibus Lares ludentis peni pinxit bubulo; Marcus Pacuvius of Brundisium, who painted in the temple of Hercules in the Forum Boarium - the same who, when more advanced in life, made himself a name as an editor of Greek tragedies; and Marcus Plautius Lyco, a native of Asia Minor, whose beautiful paintings in the temple of Juno at Ardea procured for him the freedom of that city[75] ...» |
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