# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zeuxis
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:46:25.243Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zeuxis"
name: "Zeuxis"
slug: "zeuxis"
description: "A Greek painter so skilled at illusion that legend says birds flew down to peck at his painted grapes — and then lost a contest to a rival who fooled Zeuxis himself."
tagline: "5th-century BCE Greek painter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zeusi.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "-500"
deathDate: "-400"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     32.52032520325203
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  - name: "Ancient History"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Zeuxis of Heraclea worked in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BCE, part of the Ionian School that flourished in that era. His reputation rested on an almost unsettling realism: images so lifelike they confused the eye. None of his paintings survive, but the stories stuck. Pliny the Elder, Xenophon, and Aristotle all wrote about him, preserving anecdotes that became foundational to art theory. The most famous tells of a competition with the painter Parrhasius to see who could conjure the more convincing illusion of nature — a contest Zeuxis entered confident and left humbled. The work is gone, but the legend of what painting could do lived on through him.