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This is a list of women artists who were born in Greece or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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 ...
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 ...
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).
Paintings of the Three Graces (5 P) Pages in category "Paintings of Greek goddesses" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
[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.]
The most famous of all ancient Greek painters was Apelles of Kos, whom Pliny the Elder lauded as having "surpassed all the other painters who either preceded or succeeded him." [105] [106] Due to the perishable nature of the materials used and the major upheavals at the end of antiquity, not one of the famous works of Greek panel painting has ...
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.