Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works : a handbook (1875)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York : Hurd and Houghton · leaf 25
—AGATHARCUS. the battles with, the Gauls before Delphi. Liibke says : Not tillnow have we understood the Apollo Belvedere Ardently ex-cited, and filled with divine anger, with which is mingled a touch oftriumphant scorn, the intellectual head is turned sidewards (seefigure), while tbe figure with… … APOLLO BELVEDERE. Vatican. Agatharcus, an Athenian painter. Vitruvius says he was the in-ventor of scene-painting, and painted a scene for a tragedy whichJEschylus exhibited. This contradicts Aristotle, who says thatSophocles introduced this art. Dr. Smith thinks that probablyscene-painting was…
