Pamphilos (painter)

Pamphilos was a Greek painter from Amphipolis in Macedonia , who around 390 BC. Until around 350 BC Lived.

Pamphilos founded the Sicyon school of painting with his teacher Eupompus . He had a thorough scientific education and was also active as a writer.

Is known, which were prepared by him sentence that without mathematics and geometry , the painting could not be brought to completion. Anyone who wanted to take lessons from him had to commit to a twelve-year course and a fee of one talent (equivalent to a sailing ship). Nonetheless, the number of his pupils was considerable, the largest among them Apelle .

Of the works of Pamphilus are mentioned: the meeting with Phleius , Odysseus on the ship and a family picture.

literature

Georg Lippold : Pamphilos 30. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 3, Stuttgart 1949, Col. 351 f.
Nicola Hoesch: Pamphilos 2. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , column 213 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Pamphilus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek painter
DATE OF BIRTH	around 390 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 350 BC Chr.