Parrhasius
Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter · Artists
Parrhasius of Ephesus was a famed painter of Ancient Greece. Active during an era when other painters were starting to depict realistic scenes with shading, Parrhasius stood out by sticking to the older technique of line-drawing, and innovated new ways to portray volume using this method.
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He created new iconographies that future painters would reproduce for centuries.
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
