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Demetrios of Alexandria
( fl mid-2nd century BC). Greek painter. He was the son of Seleukos and, although he was from Alexandria, worked in Rome; none of his work survives. He illustrates the shift of artistic patronage from the great Hellenistic cities to Rome in the 2nd century BC. Demetrios is the earliest recorded landscape painter (topographos: Diodorus Siculus: History XXXI.xviii.2). Alexandrian artists began to depict Nilotic scenes in mosaics and paintings from the 2nd century BC, and Demetrios stands at the head of that genre (see ALEXANDRIA, §2(v) ). A story is told that he gave shelter at Rome to Ptolemy VI Philometor (reg c. 181–145 BC) when that king was driven from Egypt by his younger brother in 164 BC.
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- Demetrios (fl mid 2nd cent. BC)
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