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recorded a careful description of these paintings, figure by figure. 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, other than their colours. The figures were
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detached and seldom overlapping, ranged in two or three rows one above another; and the farther were not smaller nor dimmer than the nearer. Therefore, it seems that the paintings of this time were executed on almost precisely the same plan as contemporary sculptural reliefs.
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Polygnotus employed only a few simple colours. Technically his art was primitive. His excellence lay in the beauty of his drawing of individual figures, especially in the "ethical" and ideal character of his art. A contemporary and perhaps teacher of
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attest that Polygnotus did not paint for the money but rather out of a charitable feeling towards the Athenian people. In the hall at the entrance to the
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other works of his were preserved. The most important of his paintings were his frescoes in the
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Polygnotos
Polygnotus (disambiguation)
/pɒlɪɡˈntəs/
Greek
ancient Greek
Aglaophon
Thasos



Cimon
Troy
Stoa Poikile
Leucippus
Anacaeum
Plutarch
Melanthius
Acropolis
Lesche of the Knidians
Delphi
Cnidus
Hades
Odysseus
Pausanias
Pheidias


Bieber, Margarete
"Photo guide of Polygnotus street near Archea Agora in Athens"
10.25–31

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