Pausias was a Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century, of the school of Sicyon. He introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. He is thought to have invented the encaustic method of painting. His most famous work was of a bull called A Sacrifice.

See also Painting (Zographia, Graphe)

References

This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.



Stelios Lydakis, Ancient Greek Painting and Its Echoes in Later Art, 304 pages (June 2004) Publisher: Getty Publishing ISBN: 0892366834

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List of Greek painters