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Parrhasius

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Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter

ArtistsLived 500 BC to 460 BC · aged 40
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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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A Lekythos painted by an artist associated with Group R. Andreas Rumpf and Martin Robertson speculate that the depiction of the central figure, with his slanted head, morose expression, and seated pose, was influenced by Parrhasius.A Lekythos painted by an artist associated with Group R. Andreas Rumpf and Martin Robertson speculate that the depiction of the central figure, with his slanted head, morose expression, and seated pose, was influenced by Parrhasius.

Artists born in the 500s BC 6

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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. He created new iconographies that future painters would reproduce for centuries.

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Lived 500 BC to 460 BC · aged 40
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