What is Philoxenos of Eretria?
'''Philoxenus of Eretria''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Φιλόξενος ὁ Ἐρετριεύς}}) was a painter from [[Eretria]] in the [[4th century BC]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Campbell|first=Gordon|title=Philoxenos of Eretria|date=2007|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195300826.001.0001/acref-9780195300826-e-0776;jsessionid=891F653622FBF71CFCA91F37BEBFAA90|encyclopedia=The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780195300826.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-530082-6|access-date=2023-02-04}}</ref> He was the student of [[Nicomachus]] of Thebes. Philoxenus copied his speed in painting. He found new and fast ways of painting.<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]: ''breviores etiamnum quasdam picturas compendiarias invenit'',''Natural History'' xxxv. 10. s. 36. §&nbsp;22.</ref> [[Pliny the Elder|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]].<ref>Steven Rutledge, ''Ancient Rome as a Museum: Power, Identity, and the Culture of Collecting'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), p. 279</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Philoxenus of Eretria}} [[Category:Painters from Africa]] [[Category:Ancient Greek painters]] {{bio-stub}}