Mikon the elder

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Mikon ( Greek Μίκων Míkōn ) was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from Athens , a contemporary of Polygnots and like him around the middle third of the 5th century BC. Active. He was the son of the Athenian Phanochus.

Like Polygnot, Mikon also contributed to the design of the Stoa Poikile on the Athens Agora , the Anakeion and the Theseion in Athens. In the Stoa Poikile, the painting of the Amazonomachy came entirely from his hand, that of the Battle of Marathon was created in collaboration with either Polygnot or Panainus . For making the Greeks smaller than the Persians in the painting, he was paid 30 mins higher. In the Anakeion, the so-called Temple of the Dioscuri in Athens , the painting of the return of the Argonauts came from him. In the Theseion he painted, according to Pausanias, an Amazonomachy, a Centauromachy and the recognition and the end of Theseus - however, Pausanias withholds the name of the building he describes.

Mikon created the victorious statue of Callias , who was not only an Athenian statesman, but also in the 77th Olympiad , in 472 BC. BC, also a victorious Pankratiast , and other statues, of which remains on the Athens Acropolis one after 450 BC. Were found to be dated inscription.

Mikon was an excellent painter of horses, in which a famous rider named Simon found fault for having once painted a horse's eyelashes on the lower lids. Little is known about Mikon's coloring. Pliny narrates his use of ocher. and a black color based on wine yeast Varro calls him an old-school painter whose style an Apelles and a Protogenes - which, however, were active a few generations later - did not follow.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Scholion to Aristophanes , Lysistrata 679.
  2. ↑ Aristophanes, Lysistrata 679; Pausanias 1:15 ; Arrian , Anabasis 7, 13, 10.
  3. ↑ Aelian , de natura animalium 7, 38.
  4. ↑ Pliny , Naturalis historia 35, 57; Pausanias 5, 11, 6; Harpocration sv Μήκων ; only Arrian, Anabasis 7, 13, 10 names only Mikon as an artist.
  5. ↑ According to a speech by Lycurgus of Athens quoted in Harpokration sv Μήκων .
  6. ↑ Pausanias 1, 18, 1 and 8, 11, 3.
  7. ^ Pausanias 1, 17, 2-4.
  8. ↑ Pausanias 6, 6, 1 in combination with 5, 9, 3.
  9. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 34, 88.
  10. ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae (IG) I 2 534 = IG I³ 881 .
  11. ^ Aelian, varia historia 4, 50.
  12. ^ Iulius Pollux , Onomastikon 2, 69.
  13. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 33, 160.
  14. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 35, 42.
  15. ↑ Varro, de lingua Latina 9, 6, 12.

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SURNAME Mikon the elder
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mikon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH Athens
DATE OF DEATH 5th century BC Chr.