Zeuxis and Parrhasius

Zeuxis in Wikipedia

Zeuxis (Greek: Ζεῦξις) (of Heraclea) was a painter who flourished during the 5th century BC. Life and work Zeuxis was born in Heraclea around 464 BC and was presumably the pupil of Apollodorus. Zeuxis often thought himself misunderstood by his public and Aristotle did not like him at all. He is said to have laughed himself to death after painting ...

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Zeuxis in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Ζεῦξις). A celebrated Greek painter of the Ionic School, a contemporary of Parrhasius; he was a native of Heraclea in South Italy, and lived till about B.C. 400 at different places in Greece, at last, as it appears, settling in Ephesus. According to the accounts of his works which have been preserved, in contrast to the great mural painter, Polygn...

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