Spurius Tadius
View of the harbor, mural from Stabiae
Spurius Tadius (in the manuscripts only Ludius or Studius is handed down) was a Roman painter of the Augustan period. He is mentioned by Pliny the Elder in his natural history (XXXV, 116–117) and is said to have invented landscape painting . He mainly painted walls. Pliny explicitly names country houses, porticos, landscaped gardens, forests, hills, fish ponds, canals, rivers and coasts as subjects of his paintings, whereby these images were populated with people. His motifs also included villas and seaside towns. Precisely such scenes are known from Pompeii and the other Vesuvius cities.
literature
- Georg Lippold : Ludius. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XIII, 2, Stuttgart 1927, column 1711 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dimitris Plantzos: The Art of Painting in Ancient Greece , Athens, 2018, ISBN 978-618-5209-20-9 , pp. 332-335
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Spurius Tadius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Studius, Ludius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Roman painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |