ARIO8TO ARIOSTO, portrait, Titian (?), National j ARISTOCLEIDES, Orock peinter, date Gallery, London ; wood, transferred to can- unknown. Decorated Temple of AI* .11, i at vas, H. 2 ft. 8J in. x 2 ft Half length, in Delphi. Pliiiy, xxxv. 40 [138] ; 11 R, a crimson and purple dress ; an open but Schoru, 225 ; Brunn, ii. 208. sensual face, the hair falling in masses on AHISTODEMUS, painter, of Curia, about the neck, one hand playing with a rose, the 200 a c, Philostratus refers to him more other holding a pair of gloves. Answers especially as a writer on painting (Prooein. the description given by Ridolfi in 1G4G of Icon. p. 3, Didot), but says ho painted a picture in the Renier collection, Venice, after the manner of Eumelus. Brunn, ii. Might have been painted by Pellegrino da 309. San Daniele or Dosso Dossi (C. & C.). Ac- ARLSTOLACS, Greek painter, son and quired by National Gallery in I860. C. & pupil of i'uttxiax, about 308 a c, Pliny says C., Titian, i. 197 ; Ridolfi, Maraviglic, i. 210 ; (xxxv. 40 [137]) his style was severe, and Campori, Raccolta di Cataloghi, 442. mentions among his works an Epamiuondati, AllLSTARETE, painter, daughter and a Pericles, a Medea, a Theseus, an emblem- pupil of Xcun-ltHx. Pliny (xxxv. 40, 43 [147J) atical picture of the Athenian People, and says she was noted for her picture of J3scu- a Sacrifice of Oxen. Brunn, ii. 154. lapius. Brunn, ii. 300. ARISTOMACHUS or ARISTOMENES, ARISTLEUS, painter, Thebes, Theban painter, of Thasos. Vitruvius (iii. Prooem. Attic school, father and master of Nicoma- 2) says through adverse circumstances ho chit*, lived probably in the first part of the did not obtain renown equal to his merit, fourth century a c. Pliny xxxv. 3C [108J ; Among his works was n votive picture of Brunn, ii. 159. three women, dedicated by them in the ARISTIDES, Greek painter, of Thebes, Temple of Aphrodite as a thank-offering Theban Attic school, brother and pupil of for wedded happiness. He is called also Nichorttachwi ; pupil also of Euxcuidas and Aritnues and Arimenes. Varro do Lang, master of Euphranor ; probably about 37G- Lat., ix. 6, 12 ; Brunn, ii. 301. 336 B. c. Though hard as a colourist, he ARISTOMENES. See Ariflomachwt. was an admirable draughtsman and master ARISTON, Greek painter, of Thebes, son of the most subtile shades of expression, and pupil of Arixtiili-s. Only recorded work He rendered these with surpassing power is a Satyr crowned with vino leaves, holding in his Captured City, in which a mother was a goblet in his hand. Pliny, xxxv. 3G [122|; represented lying mortally wounded in a Brunn, ii. 181. street, with her infant vainly striving to ARISTONIDAS. See Mnanlimu*. draw nourishment from her breast. Alex- AUISTOPHON, Greek painter, son of ander the Great carried off this picture from Aylaojjhoii of Thasos and brother of J'olyy- Thebes toPella. King Attalus of Pergamus ( nofux, about 45G a c. He was of tho old offered 400 talents for his Dionysius, which Attic school, which knew nothing of j>er- Mummius carried from Corinth to Rome, spective, foreshortening, or oppositions of and dedicated in the Temple of Ceres, where light and shade, and painted in broad, flat it was finally burned (31 a t). Mnason, tones, with only four colours, white, red, tyrant of Elatea, paid Aristides 1000 mime yellow, and black. His works were distin- for his picture of a Persian battle, which ' guished for their expressive qualities. Ho contained a hundred figures. Other pict- painted Philoctetes (Plut De And. Poet 3), ures by him are mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. ] and Ancrcus wounded by tho boar, subjects 36). Brunn, ii. 171. [ which gave opportunity for the display of ARISTOBULUS, second-rate painter, of his capacity for rendering what tho Greeks Syria. Pliny, xxxv. 40 [146J ; Bruuu, ii. 286. call pathos, an all-pervading emotion of iain,
