Nicomachus of Thebes

[1] Pliny gives a list of his works; among them a Rape of Proserpina, Victory in a Quadriga, Apollo and Diana, and Cybele seated on a Lion.

Pliny tells us that he was a very rapid worker and claims that he was one of the painters who used only four colors.

Plutarch mentions his paintings as possessing the Homeric merit of ease and absence of effort.

Vitruvius observes that if his fame was less than his contemporaries, it was the fault of fortune rather than a lack of talent.

Among Nicomachus's students were his young brother Ariston, his son Aristides of Thebes, and Philoxenus of Eretria.

Denarius of Lucius Plautius Plancus, 47 BC. The reverse is a reproduction of Nicomachus' Victory in a Quadriga , which was placed in the Temple of Jupiter by Lucius Munatius Plancus , consul in 43 BC and Plautius' natural brother. [ 4 ]