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Headword:
Ζεῦξις
Adler number: zeta,38
Translated headword: Zeuxis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.
Aristotle [sc. mentions him] as a painter in the time of
Isocrates.[1]
In the temple of
Aphrodite this man painted a most beautiful
Eros, crowned with roses.[2]
Ζεῦξις, Ζεύξιδος. ὄνομα κύριον. Ἀριστοτέλης κατὰ τὸν Ἰσοκράτους χρόνον ζωγράφον. οὗτος ἐν τῷ ναῷ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ἔγραψεν Ἔρωτα ὡραιότατον, ἐστεμμένον ῥόδοις.
Notes:
Of
Herakleia in Italy; fifth/fourth centuries BCE. See generally OCD(3) 1638-9. "Once when Agatharchus the painter was boasting loudly of the speed and ease with which he made his figures, Zeuxis heard him, and said, 'Mine take, and last, a long time.'" (
Plutarch, Pericles 13.2)
[1] A hopelessly garbled version of Harpokration s.v., which has no mention of
Aristotle (but instead cites Z's mention in
Isocrates 15.2 and calls him best --
aristos -- of the painters of that time).
[2] Quoted from
alpha 2492.
J.J. Pollitt, The Art of Ancient Greece: sources and documents (Cambridge 1990) 149-153 and index s.v.
Keywords: art history; biography; botany; definition; mythology; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Ross Scaife on 28 June 2000@10:14:03.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics; augmented notes; added bibliography) on 20 September 2000@04:31:15.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 9 November 2003@09:07:02.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 8 July 2011@06:54:07.
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