Aristophon

Aristophon was a Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder.

Life

Aristophon was the son and pupil of the elder Aglaophon, and brother of Polygnotus. He was a native of Thasos. Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him: one showing Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea, and another containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and Credulitas.[1]

Plutarch names Aristophon as the painter of a picture of Alcibiades in the arms of Nemea;[2] Athenaeus however says it was by Aglaophon.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Bryan 1886-9.
  2. ↑ Verdegem 2010, p. 219.
  3. ↑ Verdegem 2010, p. 222.

Sources

Verdegem, Simon (2010). Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades: Story; Text and Moralism. Leuven University Press. 

This article incorporates text from the article "ARISTOPHON" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.


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