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Those dueling Greek painters return in a new guise, as Mario Merz, in the Zeuxis role, covers a glass table with an array of fresh vegetables and fruit, changed daily by a New York caterer ( Spiral Table , 1982), while Christo, playing Parrhasios, conceals the familiar Cézannesque shapes--wine bottle, vase, etc.--under a drapery of canvas ( Package on a Table , 1961).
Around 400 B.C., the Greek painter Zeuxis was said to have painted grapes so lifelike that birds came to peck at them.
Zeuxis tried to lift the curtain, and lost the contest.