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Classics 456 Dr. Soren
Roman Painting and Mosaics
Lecture 30: Encaustic Painting Technique
A. Early sources: Polygnotus, Pausias of Sikyon
B. Technique
l. Marble or wood painting
2. Cauterium
3. Cestrum
4. Feathering
5. Laurie- Greek and Roman Methods of Painting 1910
6. Labor intensive- small works only, not walls
7. Warship logos
8. Berger- Beitraege zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Malertechnik
9. Kertch Sarcophagus
10. Fayoum
11. Pagasae- Hediste Stele- death of mother and child,Volos
12. Sinai
C. Alexandros of Athens- The Knucklebone Players
l. Influence of white ground lekythoi
2. Leto, Niobe, Phoebe, Agloia, Ileara
3. Phoebe/ Artemis urges Niobe to apologize
4. Pathos
D. Perithous attacks Centaur Eurytion- Lapiths and Centaurs
l. Wedding feast for Hippodameia and Perithous
2. Zeuxis of Heraklea- centaur family, Sulla takes it
3. Meidias style vs. Parthenon
E. A Pompeiian Masterpiece- from The House of Adonis
l. Centaur Chiron- Teacher of Asclepius
2. Apollo- omphalos, Apollo Lykeios (wolfslayer, Lycian)
Lycia in winter or Hyperboreans
Purifier, healer of mind
3. Aesculapius- son of Apollo and Coronis
a. Coronis- daughter of Thessalian prince, unfaithful and
killed by Artemis and son almost killed
b. Apollo gives him to Chiron
4. 293 B.C.- Roman plague, Sibylline Books, Epidauros
F. Portraits from Pompeii
l. Young Girl- aka "Sappho", Claudian style, Patrician
Tabella, Stilus, Calamus
Erasers- sponge or pumice
2. Terentius Neo and Wife
Found in house adjoining pistrinum
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