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Philiskos of Rhodes

Subject: Art & Architecture

(fl ?c.100 bc). Greek sculptor and ?painter. Pliny (Natural History XXXVI.iv.34–5) saw several of his marble statues in Rome: an Apollo and a group consisting of Leto, Artemis, ...

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The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2007
Subject:
Art & Architecture, Classical studies
Length:
40,690 words
Illustration(s):
17

...of Seleukos of Antioch ( reg 305–281 bc ). His paintings depicting Herakles were moved to the Porticus of Octavia in Rome , where they are said to have inspired the decoration of the House of Octavius Quartone in Pompeii , which is dominated by an intense chiaroscuro, with a rich impasto of colours and specks of light. To the same milieu belongs the exuberant painting representing stories of Dionysos and Herakles in the House of Marcus Lucretius Fronto. In Rhodes , Protogenes developed the observation of social reality, a course followed by Philiskos (...

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