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Zeuxis

(fl. circa 430-400 BCE) One of the most famous painters of his time.

Several descriptions of his work offer us a glimpse of the talent and imagination of this man; he was said to have painted grapes so realistically that birds flew down and tried to eat them; he was mentioned by Pliny the Elder regarding his depiction of a scene from the life of Herakles (Heracles) in which Herakles was struggling with the snakes that Hera sent to kill him while he was still an infant.

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