PROTO GENES, pro-toll-nez, Greek painter, contemporary with Apelles: b. Caunus on the coast of Caria. He lived about 350 B.C. and spent most of his life in Rhodes. He was one of the first of Greek realists in painting. Several masterpieces of his are mentioned, in one of which a Rhodesian local hero, Ialysus, was represented hunting with a panting hound which showed foam on his mouth. Pliny, who is our chief source of information (
sequently went to Athens, where he executed the ; (Alexander and Pan' ; portraits of Philiscus, Antigonus and Aristotle's mother. He is also reported to have executed a number of statues in bronze, especially of athletes, sol diers and hunters. Consult Bostock, J., and Riley, H. T., (The Natural History of Pliny' (Vol. VI, London 1857) ; Brimn, H., (Ge schichte der Griechischen
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und Protogenes' (in Oesterreichisches Archdologisches Institut in Wien, I ahreschef te, Vol. XI, p. 29, Vienna 1908) ; Six, L, (Protogenes (in Kais.-Deutsches Archtiologisches Institut, Jahrbuch, Vol. XVIII, p. 34, Berlin 1903) ; Winckelmann, J. J., (His tory of Ancient Art Among the Greeks' (trans. by G. H. Lodge, new ed., 4 vols. in 2, Boston 1::1).