Gorgasus (painter)

Gorgasus ( ancient Greek Γόργασος , Latin Gorgasus ) was an ancient Greek painter and koroplast (clay artist).

Gorgasus probably came from Greater Greece and worked in Rome . Together with his colleague Damophilos he was responsible for the decoration of the 493 BC. Dedicated to the Ceres Temple between Circus Maximus and Aventine . Gorgasos was responsible for furnishing the left side of the temple. At work, older Etruscan ornamental reliefs were first removed, put into frames and reused. Damophilos and Gorgasos, however, worked in the Greek style. They created gable figures ( acroterion ) out of terracotta and painted murals. The signature of the works was done in the form of artist epigrams . The works were retained during later renovations. Nothing of this has survived today, at least it cannot be assigned.

swell

Pliny the Elder : Naturalis historia 35.61; 35.154

literature

Richard Neudecker : Damophilos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 3, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01473-8 , Sp. 303 (also described in the Damophilos article).
Doris Vollkommer-Glökler: Gorgasos . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 270.

personal data
SURNAME	Gorgasos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Γόργασος (ancient Greek); Gorgasus (Latin)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Greek painter and coroplast
DATE OF BIRTH	7th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	6th century BC Chr.