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Zeuxis

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Zeux·is  (zkss) Fifth century b.c.
Greek artist who was among the first Athenians to use shading, thereby achieving a degree of realism hitherto unknown in Greek painting.

Zeuxis [ˈzjuːksɪs]
n
(Biographies / Zeuxis (5th century bc-5th century bc) M, Greek, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) late 5th century bc, Greek painter, noted for the verisimilitude of his works


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It is the same in painting; and here lies the difference between Zeuxis and Polygnotus.
As we turned and moved again through the temple, I wished that the illustrious men who had sat in it in the remote ages could visit it again and reveal themselves to our curious eyes--Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, Socrates, Phocion, Pythagoras, Euclid, Pindar, Xenophon, Herodotus, Praxiteles and Phidias, Zeuxis the painter.
 
 
 
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