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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 785 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THEON  , of

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Samos,
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Greek painter of the
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age of
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Alexander the
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Great, is mentioned by
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Quintilian as a
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good artist of the second
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rank . If we may
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trust the somewhat flimsy stories told about him, his forte consisted in a lifelike, or perhaps, as
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Brunn (KiInstlergeschichte, ii . 253) puts it, a theatrical
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representation of
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action . His figures were said to start out of the picture . He
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chose such congenial subjects as the madness of
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Orestes, and a soldier rushing to
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battle . Another painter, Theorus, is mentioned, whom Brunn regards as identical with Theon .

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