This artist, who created some realistic looking grapes that birds once tried to devour, supposedly combined the best features of five different female models to create a beautiful painting depicting Helen of Troy.
In Tradition and Desire, Norman Bryson names a style of painting after this man, and states that that style is always "condemned to always combat belatedness" because it is in "permanent and necessary conflict with the past." A book by Kenneth Clark analyzes an anecdote about this person to argue that he was the first artist responsible for creating the "composite" method. This man, who apocryphally died of laughter after seeing a haggardly old-woman pose for a portrait of Venus, was once fooled by the realistic (*) curtains of Parrhasius according to an anecdote in Pliny the Elder's Natural History. This artist, who created some realistic looking grapes that birds once tried to devour, supposedly combined the best features of five different female models to create a beautiful painting depicting Helen of Troy. For 10 points, name this artist, who like his compatriot Apelles was an ancient Greek painter.
In Tradition and Desire, Norman Bryson names a style of painting after this man, and states that that style is always "condemned to always combat belatedness" because it is in "permanent and necessary conflict with the past."
Zeuxis 