Alkimachus (painter)
Alkimachos ( ancient Greek Ἀλκίμαχος , Latinized Alcimachus) was a Greek painter who probably came from Athens and worked in the 4th century BC. Was active.
After Pliny he was a painter of the second rank ( pictores primis proxumi ). He painted the Athenian Olympian Dioxippus , the 326th BC. Before the eyes of Alexander the great, defeated his best fighter, the Macedonian Korragos, in a duel and fell out of favor.
literature
- Günther Bröker: Alkimachos. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 27.
- Lidia Forti: Alkimachos . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (editor): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 1. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1958.
- Otto Rossbach : Alkimachos 6) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1540.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Alkimachus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ἀλκίμαχος (grcS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |