Lucius Mallius
Lucius Mallius was a Roman painter who lived in the late 3rd and early 2nd centuries BC. Was active in Rome .
He is only known through an anecdote handed down by the late antique philosopher and grammarian Macrobius . According to the anecdote, at a meal together , Servilius Geminus dropped the mocking remark that he understood painting better than sculpture (“Non similiter, Malli, fingis et pingis”). Mallius is said to have replied that he also made his pictures in daylight, in contrast to his son, who was made during the night ("In tenebris enim fingo luce pingo").
It is assumed that Lucius Mallius, like the painter Gaius Fabius Pictor, was of noble class, but that he was honored in contrast to the latter and was considered one of the best painters of his time.
literature
- Georg Lippold : Mallius 17. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen antiquity (RE). Volume XIV, 1, Stuttgart 1928, Col. 912 f.
- Luigi Guerrini: Mallius . In: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (ed.): Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, Classica e Orientale , Volume 4. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1961.
- Rainer Vollkommer : Mallius . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 485.
Remarks
- ↑ Macrobius, Saturnalia 2, 2, 10.
- ↑ Cf. Georg Lippold: Mallius 17 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity .
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| SURNAME | Mallius, Lucius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC Chr. |