Pamphilus of

Amphipolis Amphipolis ( ell, Αμφίπολη, translit=Amfipoli; grc, Ἀμφίπολις, translit=Amphipolis) is a municipality in the Serres (regional unit), Serres regional unit, Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, Greece. The seat of the municipality is ...

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: , fourth century BC) was a

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ian painter and head of

Sicyon Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...

ian school. Under his influence painting became a regular part of Greek classical education, and a number of his pupils went on to become well-known painters.

Career

Pamphilus was the disciple of

Eupompus Eupompus (Ancient Greek: ) was the founder of the great Sicyonic school of painting, which flourished in the 4th century BC at Sicyon in Ancient Greece. He was eclipsed by his successors, and is chiefly remembered for the advice which he is said ...

, the founder of the

ian school of painting, and worked to establish this school. Of his own works we have mostly scanty accounts; but he was well known and respected as a teacher of his style of art. Among those who paid price for his tuition were

Melanthius Melanthius ( grc, Μελάνθιος) was an ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the followin ...

Pausias Pausias ( el, Παυσίας) was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon. Biography Pausias introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. His great merit appears to have lain in the bet ...

and

Apelles Apelles of Kos (; grc-gre, Ἀπελλῆς; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (''Naturalis Historia'' 35.36.79–97 and ''passim'' ...

the painter of

Alexander the Great Alexander III of Macedon ( grc, wikt:Ἀλέξανδρος, Ἀλέξανδρος, Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greece, ancient Greek kingdom of Maced ...

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, Pamphilus was an educated man, both in literacy and mathematics. He promoted the importance of education to the development of skilful painting.

Legacy

The prominence of Pamphilus' school of painting contributed to the acceptance of painting as important to the education of noble youth. His ideas about the incorporation of mathematical skills in painting were quoted centuries later as evidence that painting was a science.

References

Sources

The Ancient Library - Pamphilus
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1849, originally published 1844 under a slightly different title) is an encyclopedia/biographical dictionary. Edited by William Smith, the dictionary spans three volumes and 3,700 p ...

) * * Kehayas Gounaris, Ioannis (2016)
Πάμφιλος ὁ Ἀμφιπολίτης - Pamphilus the Amphipolitan
Σέρρες. ISBN 978-960-88423-8-0. Ancient Greek painters Ancient Macedonian painters Sicyon 4th-century BC Macedonians Ancient Macedonians in Greece proper Artists of ancient Amphipolis {{AncientGreece-bio-stub