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  2. 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 ...

  3. Famous Artists Who Defined And Continue To Shape The World Of Art

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    Famous Artists Who Shaped the World of Art Visionaries continuously influence our world, and the following creative geniuses are some of the most renowned artists to have ever lived. #1 Leonardo ...

  4. Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects

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    The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects (Italian: Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori) is a series of artist biographies written by 16th-century Italian painter and architect Giorgio Vasari, which is considered "perhaps the most famous, and even today the most-read work of the older literature of art", [1] "some of the Italian Renaissance's ...

  5. List of centenarians (artists, painters and sculptors)

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    British-born American glassmaker and artist Marie-Louise Carven: 1909–2015: 105: French fashion designer [28] Malvina Cheek: 1915–2016: 100: British artist [29] Saloua Raouda Choucair: 1916–2017: 100: Lebanese painter and sculptor [30] Huguette Clark: 1906–2011: 104: American heiress, artist, and art collector [31] Edna Clarke Hall ...

  6. History of art - Wikipedia

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    A form of prehistoric art found all over the world, especially in Europe, small prehistoric statuettes known as Venus figurines with exaggerated breasts and bellies were made, the most famous ones being the Venus of Hohle Fels and the Venus of Willendorf, found in Germany and Austria. Most have small heads, wide hips, and legs that taper to a ...

  7. Hellenistic sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...

  8. Ancient Greek art - Wikipedia

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    Plutarch (Life of Pericles, II) said "we admire the work of art but despise the maker of it"; this was a common view in the ancient world. Ancient Greek sculpture is categorised by the usual stylistic periods of "Archaic", "Classical" and "Hellenistic", augmented with some extra ones mainly applying to sculpture, such as the Orientalizing ...

  9. Zeuxis (painter) - Wikipedia

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    One of the most famous stories about Zeuxis centers on an artistic competition with the artist Parrhasius to prove which artist could create a greater illusion of nature. [8] Zeuxis, Timanthes and Parrhasius were painters who belonged to the Ionian School of painting. The Ionian School flourished during the 4th-century BCE. [9] [10] [11]

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