Pausias
Pausias (* approx. 390 BC in Sikyon ) was a Greek painter.
He was a classmate of Apelles at Pamphilos and was considered a master of wax painting ( encaustic ). That is why he mostly painted small panel pictures in which children and flowers kept returning; The latter established his fame in a painting depicting his lover and compatriot Glykera as a wreath winder. The news of this painting inspired Goethe to write his poem The New Pausias and His Flower Girl .
Lucullus paid for a repetition of this image with two talents. Of larger compositions, a picture that was later brought to Rome and placed in the portico of Pompey , a bull sacrifice, is mentioned, in which one admired the masterfully executed foreshortening.
swell
- Pliny the Elder , naturalis historia 35, 40 ( Latin original from LacusCurtius ).
literature
- Pausias . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 317 .
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| SURNAME | Pausias |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | ancient Greek painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 390 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th century BC Chr. |