Echion
Echion, also known as Aetion (Ἀετίων), was a celebrated Greek painter in the latter half of the fourth century B.C. spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana. This painting excited such admiration when exhibited at the ancient Olympic Games, that Proxenidas, one of the judges, gave the artist his daughter in marriage. Echion seems to have excelled particularly in the art of mixing and laying on his colors.
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Echion
Sandro Botticelli · National Gallery, UK · Public domain
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- Echion died in 400 BC.
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- Hellenistic art
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- Ancient Greek
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Echion, also known as Aetion (Ἀετίων), was a celebrated Greek painter in the latter half of the fourth century B.C. spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana. This painting excited such admiration when exhibited at the ancient Olympic Games, that Proxenidas, one of the judges, gave the artist his daughter in marriage. Echion seems to have excelled particularly in the art of mixing and laying on his colors.
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It has commonly been supposed that he lived in the time of Alexander the Great; but the words of Lucian show clearly that he must have lived about the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. • Illustration — Mars and Venus by Sandro Botticelli, c 1485. Tempera and oil on poplar panel, 69 cm x 173 cm. Aloys Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so highly, as Aetion, is a corruption of Echion. Sandro Botticelli drew on Lucian's ekphrasis in his Mars and Venus (c. 1485, now National Gallery), borrowing the amoretti playing with Alexander's armour during the ceremony, two carrying his lance and one who has crawled inside his breastplate.
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Echion died.
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- Chatfield, Edward [pseud. Echion] (1800–1839), painter and author, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
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Echion, The Virgil Encyclopedia, 2013
Echion] (1800–1839), painter and author, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
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- 1.Cita Cagiano de Azevedo 1958 in EAA, s.v. Aetion 1.
- 2.Cita Giuliano 1987 p. 1066 .
- 3.P. Moreno. L’Italie méridionale et les premières expériences de la peinture hellénistique. École française de Rome. 1998.
- 4.Cita Moreno 1994 in EAA, s.v. Aetion 1 .
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Chatfield, Edward [pseud. Echion] (1800–1839), painter and author, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004Crossref registry
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