Vitalis
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.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.