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3 i g The most celebrated work of this kind is the Portland Vase in the British Museum at London, — a superb work in deep-blue glass, ten inches in height, with an upper layer of white glass, upon which figures are cut, showing white on a blue ground. 4. PAINTING AMONG THE ROMANS. Painting, as well as the other arts, was transmitted to the Romans from the Greeks ; and we have already, in our review of Hellenistic art, made mention of the masters, who, up to the time of Hadrian, bear witness to ...a brilliant after-blossoming of this branch of antique art. It is a noticeable fact, however, that, while among the sculptors of this era scarcely a Roman name occurs, there is no lack of Romans who are prominent as painters. When we consider that the art of painting flourished even among the Etruscans, it is entirely probable that the Ital- ian nations may have had a decided talent in this direction. In the days oi the republic, as far back as 300 B. C. , Fabius Pictor painted the Temple of Salus ; and the poet Pacuvius (200 B.
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