biography
| name: |
Polygnotos or Polygnotus
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pronunciation:
[polignohtus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (5th-c BC)
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| biography:
| Greek painter, born on the I of Thasos, Greece. He was innovative in giving life and character to painting, principally by arranging figures in a ‘landscape’ rather than on the traditional base-line of earlier works. His monumental wall paintings were in Athens, Delphi, and Plataea. |
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