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Protogenes

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Protogenes (lived 4th century BC)

Greek painter, active mostly in Rhodes. The painter Apelles is said to have admired his work but to have considered him too imitative of nature. His masterpiece, Ialysus, a picture of the founder of Rhodes, is said to have taken him seven years to paint.
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Apelles' line was nonrepresentational but was of such extreme delicacy that his rival Protogenes recognized it as the self-referential index of the master artist.
David Rosand. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and ... by Marciari, John / Renaissance Quarterly
One finds in this central role left to chance a sort of amplified echo of Protogenes and his sponge.
Ghosts of chance by Criqui, Jean-Pierre / Artforum International
Apelles, Pliny tells us, expressed his admiration for Protogenes by claiming the latter to be superior to himself.
Ptolemy and Strabo and their conversation with Appeles and ... by Joost-Gaugier, Christiane L. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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