The Most Famous
PAINTERS from Turkey
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Turkish Painters of all time. This list of famous Turkish Painters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Echion (-350 - -400)
With an HPI of 51.84, Echion is the most famous Turkish Painter. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Echion (Ancient Greek: Έχίων), also known as Aetion (Ἀετίων), was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxana. This painting excited such admiration when exhibited at the ancient Olympic Games, that Proxenidas, one of the judges, gave the artist his daughter in marriage. Echion seems to have excelled particularly in the art of mixing and laying on his colors. It has commonly been supposed that he lived in the time of Alexander the Great; but the words of Lucian show clearly that he must have lived about the time of Hadrian and the Antonines. Aloys Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so highly, as Aetion, is a corruption of Echion.Sandro Botticelli drew on Lucian's ekphrasis in his Mars and Venus (c. 1485, now National Gallery), borrowing the amoretti playing with Alexander's armour during the ceremony, two carrying his lance and one who has crawled inside his breastplate.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Turkish painters born between 350 BC and 350 BC. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Turkish painters include Echion.
