1000–300 BCE

4th century, male.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

Alcimachus lived at the time of Alexander the Great. Pliny calls him one of those 'next to the top rank' ( primis proximi ). He painted the portrait of an athlete in the Olympian Games who won the pancration (boxing and wrestling)....

4th century, male.

Born to a family originally from Paros.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Alcippus' name appears on a base found at Anaphe (near Thera). The inscription can be dated to the beginning of the 4th century BC.

5th – 4th century, male.

Active at the end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th century BC.

Born to a family originally from Athens.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Aleuas' name is known from two inscriptions on votive statues from the Acropolis of Lindos. These may date from c. 400 BC. This sculptor may have been confused with another mentioned in Pliny....

4th – 3rd century, male.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

A monochrome painting on marble found at Herculaneum bears the signature of Alexander. Known as Girls Playing Knucklebones, it depicts Phoebe trying to reconcile Leto and Niobe who have quarrelled over their game, while Ileaira and Aglae continue to play, kneeling on the ground. The delicate style is reminiscent of the elegance of Attic white-ground pottery....

5th century, male.

Active at the end of the 5th century BC.

Sculptor in bronze.

Ancient Greek.

Alexis is mentioned by Pliny as being one of the followers of Polyclitus (school of Argos).

5th century, male.

Active in the first half of the 5th century BC.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

This name is found on the volute krater found at Altamura and now in London. Some of his red-figure pottery has been found at Spina. He seems to have been active between 470 and 455 BC. His work is generally found on large vases and depicts solemn scenes, airy compositions imbued with a religious sense reminiscent of Aeschylus. The draperies are painted with a sense of volume, but the anatomy is still archaic in style....

5th century, male.

Active at the beginning of the 5th century BC.

Born to a family originally from Naxos.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek, Archaic Period.

Alxenor's name appears on a funerary stele found at Orchomenusin Boeotia (a bearded man wearing a himation (cloak) and leaning on a long stick, playing with a dog to which he is offering a grasshopper). The work and the inscription date from 490-480 BC. Despite elements of archaic art, Alxenor's stele is remarkable for the accuracy of its rendering of anatomy and the flowing movement of the figures....

5th century, male.

Active in Sicyon.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Alypus was a follower of a certain Naucydes of Argos and a contemporary of Polyclitus. He made a number of statues of athletes for Olympia and also worked at Delphi around 405 BC, where he made an ex-voto (offering made in fulfilment of a vow) offered by Lysander and the Spartan victors....

6th century, male.

Active in the second half of the 6th century BC.

Born to a family originally from Ionia.

Potter, vase painter (?).

Ancient Greek, Archaic Period.

Attic School.

The signature Amasis made this ( Amasis epoiesen), may mean that Amasis was not the artist who painted these vases, but the potter. Three amphorae, four oenochoes (wine jugs) and the remains of a kylix (drinking vessel) exist by this artist. The subjects are taken from Homer, the legend of Heracles, and the myth of Perseus and the Gorgon. The figures in his pottery are black-figure Attic in style, standing out clearly against a plain background. Their clothes are decorated with incised and often geometric detail. The artist has highlighted the clothes with a purplish red and the flesh of the women with white....

6th century, male.

Active in Corinth, at the beginning of the 6th century BC.

Painter, potter.

Ancient Greek.

6th century, male.

Active in Attica, at the end of the 6th century BC.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Mentioned in Pliny, Amphicrates may have made a bronze statue of a Lioness that stood at the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. It was a symbolic reference to the lyre player Leaina, a friend of one of the Tyrannicides, who was said to have cut out her tongue rather than betray the conspirators under torture....

5th century, male.

Active in the first half of the 5th century BC.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Amphion of Cnossus was a follower of Critius through his teacher Ptolichus, and was himself the teacher of Pison. Of the Attic school, he made an Ex-voto commissioned by Arcesilaus IV...

4th century, male.

Active at the end of the 4th century BC.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Pliny mentions a marble statue of the historian Callisthenes (died 326 BC) by Amphistratus. At that time the statue stood in the Gardens of Servilius. According to Tatian, Amphistratus made a bronze statue of a woman poet, ...

5th century, male.

Active at the time of the Persian wars.

Born in Corinth.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

Amyclaeus worked with Diyllus and Chionis at Delphi on a Dispute of the Tripod, an offering from the Phocians for their victory over the Thessalians.

6th century, male.

Active in the second half of the 6th century BC.

Potter, vase painter (?).

Ancient Greek.

Working in the Attic black-figure style, Anacles' signature appears coupled with that of Nicosthenes.

5th century, male.

Active in the first half of the 5th century BC.

Born in Aegina.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

The soldiers who had fought at Plataea (479 BC) commissioned Anaxagoras to make a bronze statue of Zeus, ten cubits high, to be set up at the Altis (Sacred Grove of Zeus) at Olympia, near the Bouleuterion. He also executed an ex-voto (offering made in fulfilment of a vow) offered by Praxagoras, son of Lycaius. Antigonus of Carystus mentions Anaxagoras in his writing on the history of art....

3rd century, female.

Activec.the middle of the 3rd century BC.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

Anaxandra was the daughter and follower of the Sicyonian painter Nealces.

6th century, male.

Active in the first half of the 6th century BC.

Born at Chios.

Sculptor.

Ancient Greek.

He is known to have worked in Delos. A passage in The Birds by Aristophanes suggests that he was the first to have depicted the goddess Nike with wings....

6th century, male.

Active at the end of the 6th century BC.

Potter, vase painter.

Ancient Greek, Archaic Period.

Credited with inventing red-figure ceramic painting, Andocides produced both red- and black-figure vases. The clothes of his figures are ornamented, while his naked figures are decorative, with the muscles indicated by geometric patterns....

5th century, male.

Active probably in the 5th century BC.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

Androbius painted the famous diver Scyllis breaking the oars of the Persian ships. It is likely that this painting, like the Delphic portraits of Scyllis and his daughter Hydna, dates from shortly after the Persian wars....