Pausias
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Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon.
==Biography== Pausias introduced the custom of painting ceilings of houses. His great merit appears to have lain in the better rendering of foreshortening. The words in which Pliny describes a bull painted by him should be quoted: