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Annetta Kapon (active since 1982), sculptor, installation artist, educator Marina Karella (born 1940), painter, sculptor Kora of Sicyon (born c. 650 BC), ancient Greek artist
It includes artists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Ancient Greek women artists" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BC. It was one of the first life-sized representations of the nude female form in Greek history, displaying an alternative idea to male heroic nudity.
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos [b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Dated around the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC, it was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos , Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre Museum since 1821.
Phryne was the model for two of the great artists of classical Greece, Praxiteles and Apelles. She is most famously associated with Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Knidos, [56] the first three-dimensional and monumentally sized female nude in ancient Greek art. [57] However, the only source for this association is Athenaeus.
The ancient Theran artists made full use of their colors: yellow was used for the golden fur of lions or the skin of youths, and as a stand-in for light green for painted plants such as myrtle. Blue was used as a dark gray to indicate birds, animal pelts, fish scales, and the shaven heads of young figures.
[Women also paint: Timarete, daughter of Mykonos, Diana, whose painting is the oldest on the Ephesus panel; Irene, the daughter and pupil of the painter Cratinus, who did the Eleusine girl; Calypso, who did old age, the juggler Theodore and the dancer Alcisthenes; Aristarete, daughter and pupil of Nearchus, who did an Aesculapius.]
This is a list of Greek artists from the antiquity to today. Artists have been categorised according to their main artistic profession and according to the major historical period they lived in: the Ancient (until the foundation of the Byzantine Empire), the Byzantine (until the fall of Constantinople in 1453), Cretan Renaissance 1453-1660, Heptanese School 1660-1830 and the Modern period ...