Lucius Calpurnius Festus
Lucius Calpurnius Festus was a Roman painter.
It is only by its in Pozzuoli found grave inscription known which identifies him as a painter, who died at the age of 21 years. The inscription reads:
- Dis Manib [us]
- L [ucio] Calpurnio
- Festo pictori
- vixit an [nos] XXI
literature
- Rainer Vollkommer : Calpurnius . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 127.
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SURNAME | Calpurnius Festus, Lucius |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | between 1st century BC BC and 9th century |
DATE OF DEATH | between 1st century BC BC and 9th century |
Place of death | Pozzuoli |