Philoxenos of Eretria

Philoxenus of Eretria (Greek: Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς) was a painter from Eretria in the 4th century BC.^[1] He was the student of Nicomachus of Thebes. Philoxenus copied his speed in painting. He found new and fast ways of painting.^[2] 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.^[3]

References

↑ Campbell, Gordon (2007), "Philoxenos of Eretria", The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195300826.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-530082-6, retrieved 2023-02-04
↑ 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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[1] Campbell, Gordon (2007), "Philoxenos of Eretria", The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acref/9780195300826.001.0001, ISBN 978-0-19-530082-6, retrieved 2023-02-04

[2] Pliny: breviores etiamnum quasdam picturas compendiarias invenit,Natural History xxxv. 10. s. 36. § 22.

[3] 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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