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NICOMACHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 664 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOMACHUS , of See also:

Thebes, See also:Greek painter, of the See also:early See also:part of the 4th See also:century, was a contemporary of the greatest painters of See also:Greece; See also:Vitruvius observes that if his fame was less than theirs, it was the See also:fault of See also:fortune rather than of demerit. See also:Pliny (See also:xxxv. ro8) gives a See also:list of his See also:works; among them a " See also:Rape of Persephone," " Victory in a See also:Quadriga," a See also:group of See also:Apollo and See also:Artemis, and the " See also:Mother of the Gods seated on a See also:Lion." Pliny tells us that he was a very rapid worker and used but four See also:colours (the last seems impossible). See also:Plutarch mentions his paintings as possessing the Homeric merit of ease and See also:absence of effort.

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