Cleanthes of Corinth
Cleanthes was an ancient painter of Corinth, who was mentioned among the inventors of that art by Pliny the Elder and Athenagoras of Athens. A picture by him representing the birth of the goddess Minerva was seen in the temple of Diana near the Alpheius River (Artemis Alpheionia). This work was not, as the archaeologist Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard once said, in a "ludicrous style", but rather in the severe style of ancient art.
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Cleanthes of Corinth
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Cleanthes was an ancient painter of Corinth, who was mentioned among the inventors of that art by Pliny the Elder and Athenagoras of Athens. A picture by him representing the birth of the goddess Minerva was seen in the temple of Diana near the Alpheius River (Artemis Alpheionia). This work was not, as the archaeologist Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard once said, in a "ludicrous style", but rather in the severe style of ancient art.
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Born in 700, died in 700.
Cleanthes of Corinth (700–700) was a painter.
Клеанф из Коринфа изображает рождение Афины из головы Зевса.
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