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Parrhasios (lived late 5th century BC)

Greek painter. A contemporary and rival of Zeuxis, he is ranked among the greatest Attic artists. He was born in Ephesus and active mostly in Athens.

He is said to have outrivalled Zeuxis in trompe l'oeil illusionism, and was particularly good at conveying emotion. His picture of the Athenian Demos is famous and his study of Theseus adorned the Capitol in Rome.
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According to his famous account of the contest between two Greek painters of the fifth century BC, Zeuxis painted grapes so realistic that birds flew up to peck at them, but Parrhasios outdid his opponent with a pictute of a curtain.
Warren Neidich; Galerie Magnus Muller by Popescu, Adina / Artforum International
Setting the stage for this discussion, Rosand introduces the lines of Apelles and Parrhasios, two drawings particularly celebrated in antiquity.
David Rosand. Drawing Acts: Studies in Graphic Expression and ... by Marciari, John / Renaissance Quarterly
between the artists Zeuxis and Parrhasios in which both were required to make the most mimetically faithful still life; the latter won by painting a curtain so realistic that his competitor tried to pull it back to reveal the nonexistent still life behind it.
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