Aristophon (painter)
Aristophon ( Greek Ἀριστοφῶν Aristophṓn ) was a Greek painter from Thasos who lived from around 470/460 BC. Until possibly around 420 BC Worked.
Aristophon was the son and student of Aglaophon and the younger brother of the famous painter Polygnot . From Pliny he is on the artists of the second rank, primis proximi counted. The following works of his paintings are known from written records: Ankaios , wounded by the boar, mourned by his mother Astypalaia ; Another work, outwardly described by Pliny as numerosa tabula , i.e. consisting of numerous tablets, depicted a number of mythical persons and personifications - Priam , Helena , gullibility ( Credulitas ), Odysseus , Deiphobos and deception ( Dolus ). Presumably it was a scene from the final phase of the Trojan War , when Helena was already married to Deiphobos and Odysseus, disguised as a beggar, hatched the plan with Helena to conquer the city in Troy. Another painting depicts the Argonaut Philoctetes .
It is possible that works that Satyros of Kallatis assigned to the son of Aristophon, the younger Aglaophon , are actually to be connected with Aristophon. Because at least one of these works depicting Alcibiades is named by Plutarch as his painting: Alkibiades, "more beautiful in face than a woman", sitting in the arms of Nemea , in whose games Alcibiades was victorious in the chariot race .
There is no idea of Aristophon's style and technique.
literature
- Johannes Overbeck : The ancient written sources on the history of the fine arts among the Greeks. Leipzig 1868, pp. 214–215, No. 1127–1129 ( archive.org ).
- Otto Rossbach : Aristophon 9 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 1008.
- Filippo Magi : Aristophon . In: Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale . Volume 1. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1958.
- Andreas Rumpf : Aristophon 3rd In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 581.
Remarks
- ^ Plato , Gorgias 448 B.
- ^ A b c Pliny, Naturalis historia 35, 138.
- ↑ Plutarch , de audiendis poetis 3 and quaestiones convivales 5, 1, 2.
- ↑ a b Satyros of Kallatis near Athenaios , Deipnosophistai 12, 534 D.
- ↑ Plutarch, Alkibiades 16.
- ↑ Pausanias 1, 22, 6 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aristophon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek ancient painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 490 BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thasos |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th century BC Chr. |