A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Lala Cizena
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LALA CIZENA, of Mysia, in Asia Minor, came and established herself at Rome, about 84 B. C.
She became a vestal, and painted and carved in ivory the portraits of many Roman matrons, and, by the help of a looking-glass, her own resemblance. There was none in her time whose pencil was more delicate or expeditious. She excelled Sopylus and Dionysius, the most famous portrait painters of the age, and her works sold very dear. On account of her talents and virtue a statue was erected to her, which, in the beginning of this century, was to be seen in the Justinian Museum at Rome. She flourished about thirty-three years before Christ.
Abecedario Pittorico. F. C.