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Anaxandra (fl. 220s BC), ancient Greek painter Aristarete , mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147-148) in A.D. 77 Arleta (born 1945), musician, writer, illustrator
A small snake emerges from behind the instrument, slithering towards a flower. It has been suggested that the Sappho figure resembles either Keomi Gray or Fanny Eaton, both models for several pre-Raphaelite painters. The date and Solomon's signature as two Greek sigmas are portrayed as a stone instruction, "ΣΣ / 2.64", in the lower right corner.
Timarete (Greek: Τιμαρέτη) (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter. [1] She was the daughter of the painter Micon the Younger of Athens. [1] According to Pliny the Elder, she "scorned the duties of women and practised her father's art."
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.
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 ...
The wall paintings of ancient Thera are famous frescoes discovered by Spyridon Marinatos at the excavations of Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini (or Thera). They are regarded as part of Minoan art , although the culture of Thera was somewhat different from that of Crete , and the political relationship between the two islands at the ...
One of the five or six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147-148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Irene, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias, and possibly Calypso. [1] During the Renaissance, Giovanni Boccaccio, a 14th-century humanist, included Eirene in De mulieribus claris (Latin for On Famous Women). Some of the ...
Anaxandra (Ancient Greek: Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece. [1] She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. [2]