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CIMON OF CLEONAE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 369 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CIMON OF CLEONAE  , an early Greek painter, who is said to have introduced
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great improvements in
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drawing . He represented " figures out of the straight, and ways of representing faces looking back, up or down; he also made the
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joints of the
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body clear, emphasized
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veins, worked out folds and doublings in garments" (Pliny) . All these improvements are such as may be traced in the drawing of early Greek red-figured vases (see GREEK
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ART) .

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