artists.

1. PAPIRIUS, a painter, known by an inscription to the memory of his wife, which is now in the corridor of inscriptions in the Vatican, and on which the artist has described his profession by appending to his name the words Arte Pictoria. (Spon, Miscell. p. 229 ; Fabretti, Inscr. p. 235, No. 622; Welcker, Kunstblatt, 1827, No. 84; R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 425, 2d ed.)