Ancient Greek painters

Apelles of Kos (; ; fl. 4th century BC) was a renowned painter of ancient Greece. Pliny the Elder, to whom much of modern scholars' knowledge of this artist is owed (Naturalis Historia 35.36.79–97 and passim), rated him superior to preceding and subsequent artists. He dated Apelles to the 112th Olympiad (332–329 BC), possibly because he had produced a portrait of Alexander the Great.

5th-century BCE Greek painter

Polygnotus (; Polygnotos) was an ancient Greek painter active in the middle of the 5th century BC. Later scholars of Classical World considered him to be one of the first great painters, sometimes even the inventor of the artform. ==Life== He was the son and pupil of Aglaophon. He was a native of Thasos but was adopted by the Athenians and admitted to their citizenship. thumb|350px|right|Reconstruction of Nekyia by Polygnotus 1892 thumb|350px|right|Reconstruction of Iliupersis by Polygnotus 1893 thumb|350px|right|Reconstruction of Marathon by Polygnotus 1895

Agatharchus or Agatharch () was a self-taught painter from Samos, who lived in the 5th century BC. His father was named Eudemos (Εὔδημος). He is said by Vitruvius to have invented scenic painting, and to have painted a scene (scenam fecit) for a tragedy which Aeschylus exhibited. Hence some writers, such as Karl Woermann, have supposed that he introduced perspective and illusionism into painting.

5th-century BC Greek painter

Late 5th/early 4th-century BC Greek painter

thumb|right|150px| Detail of a miniature of Thamyris (Timarete) painting her picture of the goddess Diana, N. France,(Rouen) 15th century . Timarete () (or Thamyris, Tamaris, Thamar; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter.

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thumb|AGMA Apollon Patroos Euphranor.

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thumb Micon the Younger of Athens, simply Micon or Mikon () was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile ("Painted Portico"), at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles. He also painted in the Anakeion at Athens. His daughter was the painter Timarete.

4th-century BC Greek painter

Pausias () was an ancient Greek painter of the first half of the 4th century BCE, of the school of Sicyon.

ancient Greek painter

Antiphilus () was an ancient Greek painter from Naucratis, Egypt, in the age of Alexander the Great. He worked for Philip II of Macedon and Ptolemy I of Egypt. Thus, he was a contemporary of Apelles, whose rival he is said to have been, but he seems to have worked in quite another style. Quintilian speaks of his facility: the descriptions of his works which have come down to us show that he excelled in light and shade, in genre representations, and in caricature.

Eupompus (Ancient Greek: ) was the founder of the great Sicyonic school of painting, which flourished in the 4th century BC at Sicyon in Ancient Greece. He was eclipsed by his successors, and is chiefly remembered for the advice which he is said to have given to Lysippus: to follow nature rather than any master.

Anaxandra (; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece. She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes. She painted She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis (Miscellanies) entitled "Women as Well as Men Capable of Perfection". Clement cites a lost work of the Hellenistic scholar Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.

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thumb|Portrait of Protogenes

thumb|Sacrifice of Iphigenia. Antique fresco from Pompeii

ancient Greek artist

Panaenus (), brother or nephew of Phidias, was an ancient Greek painter who worked in conjunction with Polygnotus and Micon at Athens.

Aglaophon ( Aglaofon) was an ancient Greek painter, born on the island of Thasos. He was the father and instructor of Polygnotus. He had another son named Aristophon. As Polygnotus flourished before the 90th Olympiad, Aglaophon probably lived around the 70th Olympiad, that is, around the late 6th or early 5th century BC. Quintilian praises his paintings, which were distinguished by the simplicity of their coloring, as worthy of admiration on other grounds besides their antiquity.

thumb Melanthius () was an ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC. He belonged to the school of Sicyon, which was noted for fine drawing.

Aristarete or Aristareta () was an ancient Greek painter. Little is known about her, including where and when she lived.

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ancient Greek mosaic artist

Aristolaos (, 350? BC) was a Greek painter of high caliber who lived in Sicyon, and who was the son and pupil of the painter Pausias.

3rd-century BC Greek painter

thumb|right|Fresco from the Casa dei Dioscuri, believed to exhibit Timomachus' influence

Nealkes or Nealces () was an ancient Greek painter from Sicyon who flourished in the 3rd century BC.

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ancient Greek painter

Greek painter

Gorgasus (in Greek: Γόργασος) was a renowned ancient Greek painter who, along with the equally renowned Damophilus, was responsible for the decoration of the temple of the goddess Ceres (identified with the Greek Demeter) on the Aventine Hill in Rome, which faced the Great Hippodrome. The precise date of their work is uncertain. If the Damophilus mentioned is the same Damophilus from Himera in Sicily, who taught the well-known sculptor Zeuxis, their artwork might actually be from much later than when the temple was built in 496 BC, around 40 years later.

thumb|A kitchen scene by Pieter Aertsen, who was compared to Peiraikos Peiraikos, or Piraeicus or Peiraeicus (), was an Ancient Greek painter of uncertain date and location. He was the chief representative of what is called rhopography (ῥοπογραφία), or the painting of petty subjects, such as still-life. None of his work is known to have survived and he is known only from a brief discussion by the Latin author Pliny the Elder. Pliny's passage comes in the middle of his discussion of painting in Book XXXV of his Natural History, completed about 78 AD:

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ancient Greek dithyrambic poet

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Greek painter from Corinth, active in the early 7th century BCE

Ctesilochus (fl. 4th century BCE) was a painter of ancient Greece. He was the pupil and perhaps brother of the much more renowned painter Apelles.

Bularchus () was an Ancient Greek painter; Pliny indicates that he was working in the 8th century BC, during the reign of Candaules, King of Lydia.

Olbiades () was an ancient Greek painter. One of his work was a paint portraying Calippus, the general of the Athenians during the Battle of Thermopylae (279 BC) against the Gauls. The paint was in the Bouleuterion of the Five Hundred (they were the Athenian councillors for a year) in the Kerameikos at Athens.

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Alcisthene or Alkisthene () may have been a female painter mentioned by Pliny the Elder, in a list of notable female painters. In the Latin text, however, the name Alcisthenes seems to refer instead to a dancer (saltator) who is the subject of a painting by Irene daughter of the painter Cratinus.