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PARNASSUS N. Italy, i. 408 ; Villot, Cut, Louvre ; Miind- lor, 137. By Jlnpliaii, Camera della Segnatnra, Vat- ican ; fresco, arched top, H. 16 ft. x 21 ft. 4 in. ; dated loll. 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, Alcieus, PARODI, DOMENICO, born in Genoa in 1(568, died there in April, 1740. Genoese school ; son of Giacomo Filippo Parodi, a sculptor (1630-1708); pupil in Venice of Sebastiauo 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 ' - / ' is H I 1 ; m . : s H l . ^ - --; ; ,-  :: '.'-': -7 '. - '> ^^4fefe- Parnassus, Raphael, Came Anacreon, and Petrarch converse with Co- rinna 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 Boc- caccio, Antonio Tebaldes, and others. En- graved by Marc Antonio ; Volpato ; J. Ma- tham ; P. Fidanza. Miintz, 340 ; Passavant, ii. 77 ; Springer, 168 ; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 428 ; Perkins, 120. PARNASSUS, CHRISTIAN. See Tri- umph of Religion in Arts. a della Segnatura, Vatican. and in Bergamo. Gio. Battista's son, Pelle- grino (1700-69), was a noted portrait paint- er in Lisbon. Lanzi, iii. 279 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole gi'noise. PARRHASIUS, Ionic school, one of the greatest of Greek painters, born in Ephe- sus, son and pupil of Euenor, about 400 B.C. 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 arro- gant, called himself the descendant of Apol- lo, and the prince of painters, and claimed