Polygnotus

During the time of Cimon, Polygnotus painted for the Athenians a picture of the taking of Troy on the walls of the Stoa Poikile, and another of the marriage of the daughters of Leucippus in the Anacaeum.Plutarch mentions historians and the poet Melanthius attest that Polygnotus did not paint for the money, but rather out of a charitable feeling towards the Athenian people.[2] The most important of his paintings were his frescoes in the Lesche of the Knidians, a building erected at Delphi by the people of Cnidus.His excellence lay in the beauty of his drawing of individual figures, especially in the "ethical" and ideal character of his art.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 later ages.
Portrait of Polygnotos in the Nationalmuseum Stockholm
Reconstruction of Nekyia by Polygnotus 1892
Reconstruction of Iliupersis by Polygnotus 1893
Reconstruction of Marathon by Polygnotus 1895
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