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Parrhasius
Parrhasius of Ephesus was one of the most celebrated Greek painters, active in Athens in the late fifth century BCE. Ancient writers praised his precise outlines and expressive faces; Pliny tells how he defeated his rival Zeuxis by painting a curtain so lifelike that Zeuxis tried to draw it aside. None of his work survives.
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