Echi'on
a painter and statuary, who flourished in the 107th Olympiad (B. C. 352). His most noted pictures were the following: Father Liber; Tragedy and Comedy; Semiramis passing from the state of a handmaid to that of a queen, with an old woman carrying torches before her; in this picture the modesty of the new bride was admirably depicted.
He is ranked by Pliny and Cicero with the greatest painters of Greece, Apelles, Melanthius, and Nicomachus. (
Plin. Nat. 34.8. s. 19; 35.7. s. 32; 10. s. 36.9.)
The picture in the Vatican, known as "the Aldobrandini Marriage," is supposed by some to be a copy from the " Bride" of Echion. (Kugler,
Handbuch d. Kunstgesch. p. 236; Müller,
Arch. d. Kunst, § 1403.) Hirt supposes that the name of the painter of
Alexander's marriage, whom Lucian praises so highly, AETION, is a corruption of Echion. (
Gesch. d. Bild. Künste, pp. 265-268.)
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