Protogenes

Protogenes was a major Greek painter and ore caster in the late 4th century BC.

He came from Asia Minor Caunos, on the coast of Caria, but lived mostly in Rhodes before the walls of the capital of the same name.

For the city, he created a painting that showed Ialyssos with a dog. When in 305 BC the Diadochenherrscher Demetrios Poliorketes besieged the island, asked a delegation of the city at this to the conservation of the work. Demetrios said he would rather the statues that had been erected in honor of his father in Rhodes, destroy, than that he would attack the suburbs, in which was the image, although this would have rendered him an advantage. Even during the siege Protogenes several times by Demetrios in his workshop, which was in the midst of the camp visited, . During this time he made ready also his most famous work, the resting satyr.

Protogenes was a rival of his colleagues Apelles. He was, among other portraits of the Mother of Aristotle and of Antigonus Monophthalmos, the father of Demetrius. None of his many works, which include writings in addition to pictures and sculptures, still exists, nor any copies.

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• Pliny the Elder: Natural History 35, 80-83 and 104
• Plutarch: Demetrios 22

• Painter of antiquity
• Greek ( Ancient )
• Born in the 4th century BC
• Died on the 4th or 3rd century BC
• Man