English

Noun

rhyparographer ‎(plural rhyparographers)

1. (historical, usually applied to the Ancient Greeks) A person who paints or writes about distasteful or sordid subjects.
   • 1899, The Bookman, volume 10:

     Realism had its vogue in Greece when Euripedes dared to set upon the stage both men and women as they really are; but after the time of Euripedes there is no more realism in Greek literature, though its influence is felt in other fields, as, for instance, in the field of art among the rhyparographers of Pergamum, with their floors so cleverly defaced with melon rinds and scraps of garbage artfully put in by brushes of an almost Flemish cunning.

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