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  2. Bloodletting - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek painting on a vase, showing a physician (iatros) bleeding a patientBloodletting (or blood-letting) is the withdrawal of blood from a patient to prevent or cure illness and disease.

  3. Thanatos Painter - Wikipedia

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    The Thanatos Painter (5th century BCE) was an Athenian Ancient Greek vase painter who painted scenes of death on white-ground cylindrical lekythoi. [1] All of the Thanatos Painter's found lekythoi have scenes of or related to death (thanatos in Greek) on them, including the eponymous god of death Thanatos carrying away dead bodies. [2]

  4. List of Greek artists - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Category:Paintings of Greek myths - Wikipedia

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    Paintings of Greek deities (2 C) E. Paintings of Europa (consort of Zeus) (6 P) G. Paintings of Ganymede (5 P) H. Paintings of Heracles (24 P) L. Paintings of Leda ...

  6. Suicide of Ajax Vase - Wikipedia

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    Exekias was a well-known ancient Greek black-figure vase painter. His work commonly drew on scenes from the Trojan War. Ajax appears on his work more than any other Greek artist's work. [3] Ajax was supposedly born on the island of Salamis, which is where Exekias is believed to be from. Some scholars infer that this connection is one of the ...

  7. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    Greek art, especially sculpture, continued to enjoy an enormous reputation, and studying and copying it was a large part of the training of artists, until the downfall of Academic art in the late 19th century. During this period, the actual known corpus of Greek art, and to a lesser extent architecture, has greatly expanded.

  8. Medusa (Rubens) - Wikipedia

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    Medusa was a popular iconographic symbol at the time due to the interest in Greek mythology by numerous Baroque artists such as Rubens and Caravaggio. The use of Medusa as a symbol has evolved over the course of centuries and has various interpretations of the iconographic meaning, with Rubens' painting based on an interpretation of the Greek ...

  9. The Death of Hyacinthos - Wikipedia

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    The Death of Hyacinthos, sometimes referred to as The Death of Hyacinth, is an oil painting completed by Jean Broc in 1801. This is Broc's most famous work and is considered to be drawn from the Metamorphoses by Ovid. It is a depiction of the dead Hyacinthos cradled by his lover, the Greek god Apollo.

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