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Pausias
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Also known as Pausias of Sikyon

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
Occupation
painter
Languages spoken
Ancient Greek
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date of death
0400-01-01
student
Aristolaos
date of birth
0350-00-00
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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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