Polygnotus was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC, son of Aglaophon. The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c The 5th century BC started the first day of 500 BC and ended the last day of 401 BC. Aglaophon ( Gr) was an ancient Greek painter born on the island of Thasos. He was a native of Thasos, but was adopted by the Athenians, and admitted to their citizenship. Thasos or Thassos (Θάσος is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river

He painted for them in the time of Cimon a picture of the taking of Ilium on the walls of the Stoa Poecile, and another of the marriage of the daughters of Leucippus in the Anaceum. Cimon (in Greek, Κίμων &mdash Kimōn) (510 Athens - 450 BC Citium, Cyprus) was an Athenian Troy ( Greek: grc Τροία Troia, also, Ilion; Latin: Trōia, Īlium, Hittite: Wilusa or The Stoa Poikile ( Ancient Greek: ή ποικίλη στοά or Painted Porch, originally called the Porch of Peisianax (Ancient Greek ή Πεισιανάκτειος Leucippus or Leukippos ( Greek, first half of 5th century BC was among the earliest philosophers of Atomism, the idea that everything is composed entirely It is mentioned by Plutarch that historians and the poet Melanthius attest Polygnotus as not having painted for money but out of charitable feeling to the Athenian people. Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus ( Greek: Μέστριος Πλούταρχος c Melanthius was a notable ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC. In the hall at the entrance to the Acropolis other works of his were preserved. The Acropolis of Athens is the best known Acropolis (high city The "Sacred Rock" in the world The most important, however, of his paintings were his frescoes in a building erected at Delphi by the people of Cnidus. Delphi ( Greek,) ( pronounce and dialectal forms) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western Cnidus or Knidos ( Greek: Κνίδος /Knidos at the modern-day locality called Tekir in Turkey) was an ancient Greek The subjects of these were the visit to Hades by Odysseus, and the taking of Ilium. Hades (from Greek, Hadēs, originally, Haidēs or, Aidēs, probably from Indo-European *n̥-wid- 'unseen' refers both to the ancient grc-Latn Odysseus or la Ulysses ( Greek grc-Latn Odysseus; Latin: la Ulixes or more commonly Ulysses) oʊˈdɪsiəs

Fortunately the traveller Pausanias has left us a careful description of these paintings, figure by figure (Paus. Pausanias ( Greek:) was a Greek traveller and Geographer of the 2nd century CE, who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus X. 25-31). The foundations of the building have been recovered in the course of the French excavations at Delphi. From this evidence, some archaeologists have tried to reconstruct the paintings, excepting of course the colours of them. The figures were detached and seldom overlapping, ranged in two or three rows one above another; and the farther were not smaller nor dimmer than the nearer. It will hence appear that paintings at this time were executed on almost precisely the same plan as contemporary sculptural reliefs.

We learn also that Polygnotus employed but few colours, and those simple. Technically his art was primitive. His excellence lay in the beauty of his drawing of individual figures; but especially in the "ethical" and ideal character of his art. The contemporary, and perhaps the teacher, of Pheidias, he had the same grand manner. Phidias (or Pheidias; in Ancient Greek,; c[[ 80 BC]] c 430 BC) son of Charmides was an ancient Greek Simplicity, which was almost childlike, sentiment at once noble and gentle, extreme grace and charm of execution, marked his works, in contrast to the more animated, complicated and technically superior paintings of a later age.

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