Polygnotus

or Polygnotos

(born c. 500, Thasos, Thrace—died c. 440 BC, Athens, Greece) Greek painter. None of his works are extant, but accounts exist of monumental wall paintings in a severely Classical style at the hall of the Cnidians at Delphi: Sack of Troy and Ulysses Visiting Hades. His compositions were noted for the expression of emotion on faces and for the distribution of figures throughout the composition rather than on a single base line, as was the convention of the day.

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