DOI Page / Citation link:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.5278#0081
56
by the hero Hercules, who is accompanied
by Theseus and Pirithous. Besides this pic-
ture, were others—of Greece and Salamis
personified : of Hercules and the Nemaean
lion; of the deliverance of Prometheus by
Hercules; of Ajax and Cassandra; of Hippo-
dam ia and her mother; of Penthesilea ex-
piring in the arms of Achilles ; and of the two
Hesperides with the golden apples. In the
Psecile, or portico denominated " various/' at
Athens, he drew the battle of Marathon, with
the figures of the principal generals of both
armies in the foreground.
About the beginning also of the fifth cen-
Apoilodorus. tury before the Christian eera, flourished Apol-
lodorus, who, perhaps, may be considered as
the father of improved painting. He is be-
lieved to have first tried the experiment of
colouring after nature, and of giving some
grace and truth to his figures, by represent-
ing the arms and feet in action, and not at-
tached to the clumsy trunk, after the Egyp-
tian manner which universally obtained in the
earliest ages of the arts. Apollodorus was the
preceptor of Zeuxis, and two of his perform-
by the hero Hercules, who is accompanied
by Theseus and Pirithous. Besides this pic-
ture, were others—of Greece and Salamis
personified : of Hercules and the Nemaean
lion; of the deliverance of Prometheus by
Hercules; of Ajax and Cassandra; of Hippo-
dam ia and her mother; of Penthesilea ex-
piring in the arms of Achilles ; and of the two
Hesperides with the golden apples. In the
Psecile, or portico denominated " various/' at
Athens, he drew the battle of Marathon, with
the figures of the principal generals of both
armies in the foreground.
About the beginning also of the fifth cen-
Apoilodorus. tury before the Christian eera, flourished Apol-
lodorus, who, perhaps, may be considered as
the father of improved painting. He is be-
lieved to have first tried the experiment of
colouring after nature, and of giving some
grace and truth to his figures, by represent-
ing the arms and feet in action, and not at-
tached to the clumsy trunk, after the Egyp-
tian manner which universally obtained in the
earliest ages of the arts. Apollodorus was the
preceptor of Zeuxis, and two of his perform-