Pausias
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Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Sicyon
- Child
- Aristolaos
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Pamphilus of Amphipolis
- Image
- History of Ancient painting in Hermitage - 63 (LXIII) crop.jpg
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- date of death
- 0400-01-01
- time period
- classical antiquity
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- student
- Aristolaos
- date of birth
- 0350-00-00
- Commons category
- Pausias
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Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon.
==Biography== Pausias introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. His great merit appears to have lain in the better rendering of foreshortening. The words in which Pliny describes a bull painted by him should be quoted:
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