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Like many prehistoric artefacts, the exact cultural meaning of these figures may never be known. Archaeologists speculate, however, that they may be symbolic of security and success, fertility, or a mother goddess. [15] The female figures are a part of Upper Palaeolithic art, specifically the category of Palaeolithic art known as portable art.
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
Iaia is one of several female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147–148). Four others are Timarete , Irene , Aristarete , and Olympias. Pliny also possibly lists a fifth, Calypso , though this interpretation is disputed; most scholars accept an alternative reading in which Calypso is the subject of a ...
Altamira cave (Spain) – in 1879 the first prehistoric paintings and drawings were discovered in this cave, which soon became famous for their depth of color and depictions of animals, hands, and abstract shapes. Chauvet Cave (France) – some of the earliest cave paintings known, and considered among the most important prehistoric art sites.
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 ...
In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical events.
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 ...
Anarâškielâ; Аԥсшәа; العربية; Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; বাংলা; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская ...