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ingbeen supplied from the rich treasures of Greece. Paint-ing, however, in its decorative x form was practised by theRomans as early as 300 B.C. Pliny tells us that the headof the noble family of the Fabii acquired his surname ofPutor from his skill in the art, and that he decorated the 1 See… … Pompeian Fresco. yEneas Wounded. Museum, Naples. perhaps, in the case of Turpilius, an amateur of his owntime, who executed some good pictures at Verona. At the end of the Republic, Rome was said to be full ofartists, but all, or nearly all, were inferior portrait painters 14 THE WORLDS PAINTERS.…
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