3rd century BC, male.
Painter.
Ancient Roman.
Erigonus, active in 236 BC, is said by Pliny to have started out by grinding colours for Nealces.
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Erigonus
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Fabius, Caius
4th century, male.
Activec.300 BC.
Painter.
Ancient Roman.
Fabius, a member of the illustrious family of the Fabii, was criticised for dishonouring the family name by becoming a painter - it is thought that the epithet Pictor (the painter) was given to ridicule him. He is cited as the first Roman painter. In 304 BC he decorated the temple of Salus in Rome, probably with a scene showing the battle in which Bibulus defeated the Samnites. These paintings existed until the time of the emperor Claudius when the temple was destroyed by fire. He cannot have been very famous in his time for Pliny seems not to have known of him and makes no mention of him in his writings. An interval of some 150 years was to pass before the advent of the next named Roman painter....
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Gorgasus
5th century, male.
Active in 491 BC.
Born in Sicily or Greece.
Sculptor, painter.
Ancient Roman.
Gorgasus, along with Damophilus, completed the decoration of the temple of Ceres in Rome, executing terracotta statues and wall paintings.
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Pacuvius
3rd century, male.
Activec.220 BC.
Painter.
Ancient Roman.
Pacuvius, the tragic poet, took up painting as a hobby as he grew older. He produced a number of works that were seen and admired in the temple of Hercules in the Forum Boarium at Rome, but their style and subject is unknown....
