Nicomachus of Thebes

Nicomachus of Thebes was a Greek painter of antiquity, was active about 360-320 BC. He came perhaps from the city of Thebes.

According to Pliny, was Nicomachus son and pupil of the painter Aristides of Thebes. He even taught his brother Ariston, his son Aristides of Thebes II and Philoxenus of Eretria.

Pliny lists several works that are to come from Nicomachus, including a depiction of the rape of Persephone. He was a member of the four-color painting and is said to have painted very quickly. As the first he had Odysseus depicted with a pileus.

He created his paintings, among others on behalf of Macedonian ruler and the tyrant of Sicyon Aristratos. Some works came later to Rome. Has been preserved, none of the paintings of Nicomachus, but the presumption was established that a mural back in a grave in the Macedonian Vergina on Nicomachus.