Polygnotus

American  

[pol-ig-noh-tuhs] / ˌpɒl ɪgˈnoʊ təs /

noun

1. fl. c450 b.c., Greek painter.

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Polygnotus British  

/ ˌpɒlɪɡˈnəʊtəs /

noun

1. 5th century _bc , Greek painter: associated with Cimon in rebuilding Athens

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Polygnotus

On the right wing of the Propylæa stood the temple of Victory, and on the left was a building decorated with paintings by the pencil of Polygnotus, of which Pausanias has left us an account.

From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various

But—as I am always learning more distinctly from Polygnotus and Homer—we have in reality to conceive hell as existing here; thus it may be considered to be also a life.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

Polygnotus was not an ordinary mechanic, nor was he paid for this work, but out of a desire to please the Athenians, painted the portico for nothing.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Clough, Arthur Hugh

Apollodorus "applied the essential principles of Polygnotus to the delineation of the species, by investigating the leading forms that discriminate the various classes of human qualities and passions."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 by Various

They say that the first celebrated painters whose works are visited not by reason of their antiquity alone, were Polygnotus and Aglaophon.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno