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 N. Italy, i. 408; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Mündler, 137.

By Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican; fresco, arched top, H. 16 ft. × 21 ft. 4 in.; dated 1511. On the summit of the mountain, under the shade of laurels, Apollo sits playing a violin, with his eyes raised in poetic transport; around him are grouped the Muses; at left, Homer, between Dante and Virgil, is reciting from the Iliad, the youth behind them being supposed by some to be Raphael himself; below them, Alcæus, Anacreon, and Petrarch converse with Corinna of Thebes, while Sappho listens; at right, in foreground, Pindar, seated, talking with Horace, next to whom is Sannazzaro; behind them is Ariosto conversing with one of the Muses, and Ovid talking with Boccaccio, Antonio Tebaldes, and others. Engraved by Marc Antonio; Volpato; J. Matham; P. Fidanza.—Müntz, 340; Passavant, ii. 77; Springer, 168; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 428; Perkins, 120.

Parnassus, Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican.

PARNASSUS, CHRISTIAN. See Triumph of Religion in Arts.

PARODI, DOMENICO, born in Genoa in 1668, died there in April, 1740. Genoese school; son of Giacomo Filippo Parodi, a sculptor (1630-1708); pupil in Venice of Sebastiano Bombelli, and in Rome of Carlo Maratti. Painted in many churches and palaces in Genoa; most noted work, the decoration of the great hall of the Palazzo Negrone, Genoa. He was also a sculptor and an architect. His brother, Gio. Battista (born 1674, died 1730), was a good painter in the Venetian manner; worked in Milan and in Bergamo. Gio. Battista's son, Pellegrino (1700-69), was a noted portrait painter in Lisbon.—Lanzi, iii. 279; Ch. Blanc, École génoise.

PARRHASIUS, Ionic school, one of the greatest of Greek painters, born in Ephesus, son and pupil of Evenor, about 400 Most of his life was spent at Athens, of which he was made a citizen. He attained to so high a degree of excellence and was held in such honour that he became arrogant, called himself the descendant of Apollo, and the prince of painters, and claimed