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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; Aggelika Korovessi (born 1952), sculptor
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.
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."
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 ...
Iaia of Cyzicus (Greek: Ιαία της Κυζίκου), sometimes (incorrectly) called Lala or Lalla, or rendered as Laia or Maia, [1] was a Greek painter born in Cyzicus, Roman Empire, and relatively exceptional for being a woman artist and painting women's portraits. [2] She was alive during the time of Marcus Terentius Varro (116–27 BC).
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 ekphrasis was a literary form consisting of a description of a work of art, and we have a considerable body of literature on Greek painting and painters, with further additions in Latin, though none of the treatises by artists that are mentioned have survived. [101]
[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.]