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AGATHARCHUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AGATHARCHUS  , an Athenian painter of the 5th

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century B.C . He is said by
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Vitruvius to have been the first to paint a
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scene for the acting of tragedies . Hence some writers, such as Karl Woermann, have supposed that he introduced
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perspective and illusion into
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painting .

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