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.
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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 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 arrogant,
called himself the descendant of Apollo,
and the prince of painters, and claimed
