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PARRHASIUS , of See also:Ephesus, one of the greatest painters of See also:Greece. He settled in See also:Athens, and may be ranked among the See also:Attic artists. The See also:period of his activity is fixed by the See also:anecdote which See also:Xenophon records of the conversation between him and See also:Socrates on the subject of See also:art; he was therefore distinguished
as a painter before 399 B.C. See also:Seneca relates a See also:tale that Parrhasius bought one of the Olynthians whom See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip sold into See also:slavery, 346 B.C., and tortured him in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to have a See also:model for his picture of See also:Prometheus; but the See also:story, which is similar to one told of See also:Michelangelo, is chronologically impossible. Another tale recorded of him describes his contest with Zeuxis. The latter painted some grapes so perfectly that birds came to See also:peck at them. He then called on Parrhasius to draw aside the See also:curtain and show his picture, but, finding that his See also:rival's picture was the curtain itself, he acknowledged himself to be surpassed, for Zeuxis had deceived birds, but Parrhasius had deceived Zeuxis. He was universally placed in the very first See also:rank among painters. His skilful See also:drawing of outlines is especially praised. and many of his drawings on See also:wood and See also:parchment were preserved and highly valued by later painters for purposes of study. He first attained skill in making his figures appear to stand out from the background. His picture of See also:Theseus adorned the Capitol in See also:Rome. His other See also:works, besides the obscene subjects with which he is said to have amused his leisure, are chiefly mythological See also:groups. A picture of the Demos, the personified See also:People of Athens, is famous; according to the story, which is probably based upon epigrams, the twelve prominent characteristics of i he people, though apparently quite inconsistent with each other, were distinctly expressed in this figure.
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