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Cleanthes (artist)
Greek painter from Corinth / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cleanthes (Ancient Greek: Κλεάνθης) was an ancient painter of Corinth, who was mentioned among the inventors of that art by Pliny the Elder and Athenagoras of Athens.[1][2]
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A picture by him representing the birth of the goddess Minerva was seen in the temple of Diana near the Alpheius River (Artemis Alpheionia).[3][4] This work was not, as the archaeologist Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard once said, in a "ludicrous style", but rather in the severe style of ancient art.[5] Modern scholars now believe Gerhard to be conflating Cleanthes with the artist Ctesilochus.[6]
Two 19th-century frescos in Hermitage are reconstructions of his paintings by Johann Georg Hiltensperger.