Pausias

Pausias ( * ca 390 BC in Sicyon ) was a Greek painter.

He was classmate of Apelles with Pamphilus and was considered a master of wax painting ( encaustic ). Therefore, he painted mostly small panel paintings in which children and flowers always reappeared; The latter justified in a painting of his mistress and rural women Glycera as Kränzewinderin, his fame. Goethe was inspired by the message of this painting to his poem The new Pausias and his flower girl.

A repetition of this image paid Lucullus with two talents. From larger compositions is a later accommodated to Rome, -positioned in the portico of Pompey image, a bull sacrifice, called, where you admired the masterly carried out reductions.

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• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 35, 40 ( Latin original at LacusCurtius ).