Euphranor
Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) was a Greek artist. • Illustration — AGMA Apollon Patroos Euphranor. Pliny the Elder provides a list of his works including a cavalry battle, the Twelve Gods, a painting of the feigned madness of Odysseus, and a Theseus, Euphranor said regarding his statue of Theseus, that Parrhasius's Theseus had lived on a diet of roses, whereas his own was a beef-eater. No known existing statues have been identified as copies from works of Euphranor (but see a series of attributions by Six in Jahrbuch, 1909, 7 foil.).
Also recorded as Euphranor of Isthmia · Euphranor of Korinth
Euphranor
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- Born
- 301. · Isthmus of Corinth.
- Died
- 400. · Athens.
- Nationality
- Classical Athens.
- Occupation
- painter and sculptor.
- Fields
- art of sculpture and painting.
- Teachers
- Aristides.
- Languages
- Ancient Greek.
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His work appears to have resembled that of his contemporary Lysippus, notably in the attention he paid to symmetry, in his preference for bodily forms slighter than those usual in earlier art, and in his love of heroic subjects. He wrote influential treatises on painting, on topics including proportions and color. He was a contemporary of Antorides, and, like him, studied under Ariston.
Training under Aristides is recorded. Antidotos is recorded as having studied under Euphranor. The recorded working language is Ancient Greek. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture and painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Athens. Work by Euphranor is recorded in the collections of Acropolis Museum and Museum of the Ancient Agora.
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Euphranor is recorded as a sculptor, writer, teacher, painter and theorist. Euphranor was born in Kirás Vrísi and died in Athínai.
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301
Euphranor born at Isthmus of Corinth.
400
Euphranor died at Athens.
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Isthmus of Corinth.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q949770: Euphranor
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102387362, Euphranor.
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Select Bibliography on Euphranor, Euphranor, 1980
Euphranor of Rhamnous, Aged 105, the Most Fortunate Athenian, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, 2010
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- 1.Jerome J. Pollitt, compte-rendu de l’Euphranor d'Olga Palagia, American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 88, 3, juillet 1984, 417 [417-419].
- 2.Agnès Rouveret, « Critique d'art (Antiquité gréco-romaine) », dans Encyclopædia Universalis, Paris, av. 1992.
- 3.harvsp id=PAL Palagia 1980 6 .
- 4.harvsp id=ROL Rolley 1999 p=284 .
- 5.Scholie à Juvénal, Satires, III, 217 = , 1639.
- 6.harvsp id=PAL Palagia 1980 7 .
- 7.Plutarque, Sur la gloire des Athéniens II.
- 8., XXXV, 128.
- 9.Quintilien, Institution oratoire, XII, 10, 6. Extrait de la traduction de , 1640.
- 10.Lucien de Samosate, Sur ceux qui sont aux gages des grands, 42 ; Pour les images, 7-8 ; Philostrate, Vie d'Apollonios de Tyane, II, 20.
- 11.Lucien, Jupiter tragédien, 7 ; Aurelius Victor, Épitome, 14 ; Grégoire de Nazianze, Poésies iambiques, II, 12, 739.
- 12.Pline, XXXV, 128. Extrait de la traduction de , 1637.
- 13.Voir aussi Pline, XXXV, 129 et Vitruve, De l'architecture, VII, préface, 14.
- 14., I, 3, 3-4.
- 15.Musée de l'Agora (Athènes), inv. 2154.
- 16.Pausanias, I, 3, 4 : « On a peint dans ce même portique la bataille de Mantinée, où les Athéniens étaient comme auxiliaires des Lacédémoniens. Xénophon et d'autres ont écrit toute l'histoire de cette guerre; la prise de la Cadmée, la défaite des Lacédémoniens à Leuctres, l'invasion des Béotiens dans le Péloponnèse et comment les Athéniens envoyèrent des secours aux Lacédémoniens. Le tableau dont il s'agit représente le combat de la cavalerie ; les personnages les plus connus sont, Gryllos, fils de Xénophon, du côté des Athéniens, et parmi les Béotiens Épaminondas de Thèbes. Ces tableaux sont d'Euphranor qui a peint aussi, dans le temple voisin, Apollon surnommé Patroos. » [il s'agit de peintures… à revoir] (traduit du grec par l'abbé Gédoyn en 1731).
- 17.À partir d'elle, Bernard Holtzmann fait aussi l'hypothèse, sur la base du traitement de son drapé (« très ample, animé par des plis profonds »), qu'il soit l'auteur d'une Athéna en bronze du Pirée (musée archéologique, inv. 4646) dont le Louvre (inv. MA 530) possède une copie en marbre.
- 18.Cf. Bernard Holtzmann.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- Bernard Holtzmann, « Euphranor (actif entre 370 et 325 env. avant J.-C.) », dans Encyclopædia Universalis, Paris, av. 2004.
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- Agnès Rouveret, Histoire et imaginaire de la peinture ancienne [Thèse, Paris, 1983], Rome, 1989 (BEFAR, 274) .
- Luigi Todisco, Scultura greca del IV Secolo, Milan, 1993, 91-103 .
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 102387362, Euphranor.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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He trained under Aristides. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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