Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 680
d at Athens, where he was presented with the right ofcitizenship. His date can not be accurately ascertained, but hewas probably rather younger than his contemporary, Zeuxis, and PARRHASIUS. 655 it is certain that he enjoyed a high reputation before the deathoi Socrates. The style and degree of… … PAINTING. {2600 years old.) he established a canon, as Phidias had done in sculpture for gods,and Polycletus for the human figure, whence Quintilian callshim the legislator of his art. His vanity seems to have been asremarkable as that of Zeuxis. Among the most celebrated ofhis works was a portrait…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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