Painters, sculptors, architects, engravers, and their works ; a handbook (1876)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 23
GATHARCUS. the battles with the Gauls before Delphi. Liibke says : u Not tillnow have we understood the Apollo Belvedere Ardentlv ex-cited, and filled with divine anger, with which is mingled a touch oftriumphant scorn, the intellectual head is turned sidewards (seefigure), while the figure with… … APOLLO BELVEDERE. Vatican. Agatharcus, an Athenian painter. Yitruvius says he was the in-ventor of scene-painting, and painted a scene for a tragedy whichiEschylus exhibited. This contradicts Aristotle, who says thatSophocles introduced this art. Dr. Smith thinks that probablyscene-painting was…
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