Aglaophon the Younger

Aglaophon ( Greek Ἀγλαοφῶν ) was an ancient Greek painter who worked in the second half of the 5th century BC. In Athens . He probably came from a famous Thai family of painters and was probably the son of Aristophon and grandson of the elder Aglaophon .

From Pliny 's is acme in the 90th Olympiad , v so in time to the 420th Set. According to Satyros von Kallatis , he created two panel paintings , so-called Pinakes , of Alcibiades . One showed Alcibiades, "more beautiful in face than a woman", sitting in the arms of Nemea . The picture hung in the art gallery of the Propylaea in Athens at the time of Pausanias and celebrated the victory that Alcibiades had won as owner of the horses during the Nemean Games in the chariot race . Plutarch, however, calls this picture, which caused some uproar because of the depicted closeness to the gods of Alcibiades, a work of Aristophon. The other represented Alkibiades, who was given the victory wreath from the personifications of the Olympic and Pythian Games .

Cicero placed Aglaophon in a row with Zeuxis and Apelles in order to show that art and the underlying understanding of painting are very different in every artist and that - despite all the dissimilarity of the named painters - none of them seem to lack anything in their personal style.

There is no idea of Aglaophon's style and technique, but he was famous for his horse depictions.

literature

Johannes Overbeck : The ancient written sources on the history of the fine arts among the Greeks. Leipzig 1868, p. 215, no. 1130–1135 ( archive.org ).
Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo : Aglaophon 2 . In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Volume 1. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1958.

Remarks

↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 35, 60.
↑ ^a ^b Satyros of Kallatis near Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 12, 534 D.
↑ Michelangelo Cagiano De Azevedo: Aglaophon 2 names Nemesis instead of Nemea as the goddess represented with Alcibiades, but the written sources are clear in this regard.
↑ Pausanias 1, 22, 6 f.
↑ Plutarch, Alkibiades 16.
↑ Cicero, de oratore 3, 7.
↑ Aelian , De natura animalium 17, Epilog.

personal data
SURNAME	Aglaophon the Younger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aglaophone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC Chr.

[1] Pliny, Naturalis historia 35, 60.

[athenaios-2] Satyros of Kallatis near Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 12, 534 D.

[3] Michelangelo Cagiano De Azevedo: Aglaophon 2 names Nemesis instead of Nemea as the goddess represented with Alcibiades, but the written sources are clear in this regard.

[4] Pausanias 1, 22, 6 f.

[5] Plutarch, Alkibiades 16.

[6] Cicero, de oratore 3, 7.

[7] Aelian , De natura animalium 17, Epilog.