Cimon of Cleonae

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Cimon of Cleonae was an early painter of ancient Greece. He was said to have introduced great improvements in drawing. He represented figures out of the straight, and ways of representing faces looking back, up or down; he also made the joints of the body clear, emphasized veins, worked out folds and doublings in garments (according to Pliny). All these improvements are such as may be traced in the drawing of early Greek red-figured vases.

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