Xenocrates of Athens

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Xenocrates was a Greek sculptor who worked in the 3rd century BC. Lived. His role as a specialist writer on art theory and art history was probably too strongly emphasized in older research. Pliny the Elder mentions him in his natural history , without providing further information on the nature of his writings.

literature

  • Nadia J. Koch: Techne and Invention in Classical Painting. A terminological study. Munich 2000, v. a. Pp. 123-127.
  • Bernhard Schweitzer : Xenocrates of Athens. Contributions to the history of ancient art research and perception of art. Koenigsberg 1932.
  • Gabriele Sprigath: The case of Xenocrates of Athens. On the methods of the reception of antiquity in source research. In: Manuel Baumbach (Ed.): Tradita et inventa. Contributions to the reception of antiquity (= library of classical ancient studies. Series 2. New series, volume 106). Winter, Heidelberg 2000, pp. 407-428 ( online ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sprigath: The case Xenokrates of Athens . 2000, p. 427-428 .
  2. ^ Koch: Techne and Invention in Classical Painting . 2000, p. 123–127 (Here there is still a strong emphasis on the role of Xenocrates, especially for the representation of painting in the 35th book of the natural history of the elder Pliny, unlike Gabriele Sprigath, whose essay was published in the same year.).
  3. ↑ Plin. nh 34.83 .
  4. ↑ Plin. nh 35.68 .
personal data
SURNAME Xenocrates of Athens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Xenocrates
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek sculptor and specialist writer on art theory
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 3rd century BC Chr.