Protogenes
Protogenes was an important Greek painter and ore caster in the late 4th century BC.
He came from Kaunos in Asia Minor , on the coast of Caria , but mostly lived on Rhodes in front of the walls of the capital of the same name.
He created a painting for the city that showed Ialysus with a dog. When in 305 BC When the Diadochi ruler Demetrios Poliorketes besieged the island, a delegation from the city asked him to spare the work. Demetrios said that he would destroy the statues erected in honor of his father in Rhodes rather than attack the suburb where the image was located, although this would have given him an advantage. During the siege, Protogenes was visited several times by Demetrios in his workshop, which was in the middle of the camp. During this time he also completed his most famous work, the resting satyr .
Protogenes was a rival to his colleague Apelles . Among other things, he drew portraits of the mother of Aristotle and Antigonos Monophthalmos , the father of Demetrius. None of his many works, which in addition to pictures also include writings and sculptures, still exist, and neither do any copies.
swell
- Pliny the Elder : Natural History 35, 80–83 and 104.
- Plutarch : Demetrios 22.
literature
- Johann Adolf Overbeck : The ancient written sources on the history of the fine arts among the Greeks. Engelmann, Leipzig 1868, No. 1907 ff. ( Online , contains the relevant ancient sources sorted thematically).
- Andreas Rumpf : Protogenes 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XXIII, 1, Stuttgart 1957, Col. 981-983.
- Walter Hatto Gross : Protogenes. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 4, Stuttgart 1972, column 1197.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Protogenes |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaunos |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr. |