Apollodorus (500–460 BCE)

Born 500 BCE, died 460 BCE.

Apollodorus Skiagraphos (Greek: Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ σκιαγράφος) was an influential Ancient Greek painter of the 5th century BC whose work has since been entirely lost. Apollodorus left a technique behind known as skiagraphia, a way to easily produce shadow, that affected the works not only of his contemporaries but also of later generations. This shading technique uses hatched areas to give the illusion of both shadow and volume.

Text from the Wikipedia article Apollodorus_(painter), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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