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AGATHARCHUS , an Athenian painter of the 5th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . He is said by See also:

VITRUVIUS (MARCUS VITRUVIUS POLLIO)

Vitruvius to have been the first to paint a See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene for the acting of tragedies . Hence some writers, such as Karl Woermann, have supposed that he introduced See also:

PERSPECTIVE (Lat. peespicere, to see through)

perspective and illusion into See also:

PAINTING

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