{"id":1863,"date":"2017-03-31T18:22:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T23:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2017-07-01T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:42:49","slug":"zeuxis-and-parrhasius-pliny-the-elder-roman-painting-coloring-the-past-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/zeuxis-and-parrhasius-pliny-the-elder-roman-painting-coloring-the-past-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeuxis and Parrhasius, Pliny the Elder, Roman Painting &#8211; Coloring the Past (73)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1869\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1869\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1869\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ep73-Spelt-Mieris-Garland-and-Curtain-1949.585-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ep73-Spelt-Mieris-Garland-and-Curtain-1949.585-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ep73-Spelt-Mieris-Garland-and-Curtain-1949.585-768x557.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ep73-Spelt-Mieris-Garland-and-Curtain-1949.585.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1869\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artic.edu\/aic\/collections\/artwork\/66042\">Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris, <i>Trompe-l&#8217;Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain<\/i>, 1658, Art Institute of Chicago (1949.585)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Zeuxis and Parrhasius, Pliny the Elder, Roman Painting - Coloring the Past (73)\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xt7tTSG-uhQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[AFG_gallery id=&#8217;10&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>Pliny the Elder shares with us the tale of dueling artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius as they battled for the title of who could paint a more beguilingly realistic trompe-l&#8217;oeil (&#8220;fools the eye&#8221;) masterpiece. We also hear another short story of Zeuxis&#8217;s dashed pride.<\/p>\n<p>This recording comes complete with all the juicy, unscripted, live-action museum gallery accents of noisy kids, beeping proximity alarms, and echoing reverb. Please forgive the poor sound quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[36,512,24,15,514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1897,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions\/1897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientartpodcast.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}