Philoxenos of Eretria
Philoxenus of Eretria (Greek: Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς) was a painter from Eretria. He was the student of Nicomachus of Thebes. Philoxenus copied his speed in painting. He found new and fast ways of painting.[1] Pliny said a picture Philoxenus painted was the best painting. It was of a battle of Alexander the Great with Darius. He painted it for King Cassander. The same subject was used in the Alexander Mosaic in the House of the Faun, in Pompeii.[2]
References
- Pliny: breviores etiamnum quasdam picturas compendiarias invenit,Natural History xxxv. 10. s. 36. § 22.
- Steven Rutledge, Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 279
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