Hieron (painter)
Hieron ( Greek Ἱέρων ) was an ancient Greek painter from the first half of the 1st century BC. From the Pamphylia region .
The information about Hieron and his brother Cornelius Tlepolemos comes exclusively from Marcus Tullius Cicero's speeches against Verres . According to Cicero, the brothers had to flee their homeland, Kibyra, because of temple violence. They then occurred in the year 80 BC. In the service of Gaius Verres , who was legatus pro quaestore in Cilicia at that time . In the following years they tracked down works of art for Verres in Asia Minor . As Verres 73 v. Chr. BC became governor of Sicily , they continued their activity until 71 BC. Chr. Continued on the island. The brothers advised Verres professionally and also helped him with his art robberies. Hieron's own works have not survived or at least cannot be assigned to him.
swell
- Marcus Tullius Cicero : The speeches against Verres. 4.30-33, 47, 96.
“Iam, ut haec omnia reperire ac perscrutari solitus sit, iudices, est operae pretium cognoscere. Cibyratae sunt fratres quidam, Tlepolemus et Hiero, quorum alterum fingere opinor e cera solitum esse, alterum esse pictorem. Hosce opinor, Cibyrae cum in suspicionem venissent suis civibus fanum expilasse Apollinis, veritos poenam iudici ac legis domo profugisse ”
“Now it is worth the effort to learn, your judge, how he usually went about discovering and tracking down all of this. There were two brothers from Kibyra, Tlepolemus and Hieron; one, as far as I know, was concerned with making wax figures, the other was a painter. I believe that when their fellow citizens in Kibyra suspected they had robbed a temple of Apollo, they fled their homeland for fear of trial and the punishment of the law "
literature
- Hieron . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 17 : Heubel – Hubard . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1924.
- Georg Lippold : Hieron 22. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VIII, 2, Stuttgart 1913, Sp. 1516 ( digitized version ).
- Richard Neudecker : The Sculpture Equipment of Roman Villas in Italy (= Contributions to the Development of Hellenistic and Imperial Sculpture and Architecture. Volume 9) by Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-0937-6 , p. 19.
- Rainer Vollkommer : Hieron (II). In: Derselbe (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 319.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero: Cicero's speech against C. Verre's fourth book . BG Teubner, 1908, p. 43–44 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Manfred Fuhrmann (translator): The speeches against Verres . Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006176-4 , p. 85-87 ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hieron |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ίέρων (Greek spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC Chr. |