Zeuxis

American  

[zook-sis] / ˈzuk sɪs /

noun

1. flourished c430–c400 b.c., Greek painter.

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Zeuxis British  

/ ˈzjuːksɪs /

noun

1. late 5th century _bc , Greek painter, noted for the verisimilitude of his works

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Zeuxis

To be esteemed as a painter was to be compared with lost and mythic artists: Parrhasios, Zeuxis and Apelles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zeuxis illustrated grapes so lifelike that birds swooped down and tried to eat them.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was said of Zeuxis, the great artist of ancient Greece, that he could paint a bunch of grapes so realistically that birds would try to eat them.

From Time Magazine Archive

The classic anecdote of the triumph of art as artifice concerned Zeuxis: when he unveiled his painting of grapes, birds flew down to peck at them.

From Time Magazine Archive

Agathon, the tragic poet; Timotheus, the now famous musician whom Euripides had once saved, so the story ran, from suicide; Zeuxis, the greatest painter of the time; and perhaps also Thucydides, the historian.

From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray

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