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Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos

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Floor mosaic, Pompeii, Italy. 1st-century BCE Roman copy of a Greek wall painting of c. 310 BCE, perhaps by Philoxenos of Eretria or Helen of Egypt. Entire panel 8'10" × 17' (2.7 × 5.2 m).

Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos is a Roman first-century mosaic replicating a Greek painting of about 310 BCE.
This copy documents a growing taste for dramatic narrative in Greek paintings.
Painters in the fourth century BCE were interested in creating believable illusions of the real world.
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