5th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Cnossus.
Sculptor in bronze.
Ancient Greek.
Acestor is believed to be the father of Amphion, who was sometimes - though wrongly - credited with the Delphic Charioteer...
3rd century, male.
Active in Argos.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Acestor worked in collaboration with Toron, son of Apellion, also from Argos, on a votive statue from Troezen.
5th century, male.
Active between 460 and 430 BC.
Painter.
Ancient Greek.
The Achilles Painter is named for his depictions of Achilles, particularly that on an amphora in the Vatican where the hero is shown armed with a lance and wearing a cuirass. He is depicted standing alone, while on the other side of the amphora is a female figure. This way of presenting single figures, one on either side of a vase, can be compared to the work of the Berlin Painter and initially had a very strong influence on the Achilles Painter. The rather exaggerated anatomical details of the early nudes is borrowed from the Berlin Painter....
5th century, male.
Active in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Selinus (Selinunte), Sicily.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Acron's name appears at Delphi on a base for two statues ( Asclepius and Hygieia?) offered by Philistion, a devotee of Asclepius. The inscription dates from before 400 BC....
6th century, male.
Active in Attica in the first quarter of the 6th century BC.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Aesopus' name, together with a reference to his brothers, was found in Attic characters on a base from Sigea in the Troad (the area around Troy).
4th century, male.
Painter. Historical subjects, peopled scenes, genre scenes.
Ancient Greek.
Probably Ionian, Aetion was active in the second half of the 4th century BC. Lucian describes one of his paintings representing the Marriage of Alexander and Roxane, princess of Sogdiana. The Aldobrandini frescoes may relate to this work. Lucian's text inspired Sodoma (or Raphael ?) to paint the same subject. According to Pliny, who indicates that the artist also worked in bronze, Aetion also painted an ...
5th century, male.
Active in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Living at Alopeke (near Athens), Agathanor was a foreigner recorded as having received payment for work on the friezes of the Erechtheum in 408-407 BC....
4th century, male.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Agatharchus is known from a signature from Thasos (dedication to Pan and Aphrodite).
5th century, male.
Painter. Historical subjects.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Agatharchus was a Samian painter working in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC, at the time of Pericles. He is thought to have painted a skene (backdrop) for Aeschylus' play Seven against Thebes...
4th century, male.
Wrongly described as a sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
Agathinus is known from a signature on the marble tree trunk supporting a now-lost statue from Privernum.
5th century, male.
Vase painter.
Ancient Greek.
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3rd century, male.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek.
A scene bearing Agathon's signature and showing the priest Aristis worshipping Horus, dating from around 250 BC, was found between the temples of Apollo and Isis at Cyrene.
3rd century, male.
Sculptor in bronze.
Ancient Greek.
Born in Ephesus in the first half of the 3rd century BC, Agathon collaborated with Ariston of Chios on a votive offering from Timotheus son of Euphanes. The sculptor's signature was found on the Acropolis at Lindos (datable to c. 270 BC)....
6th – 5th century, male.
Sculptor in bronze.
Ancient Greek, archaic and pre-classical period.
School of Argos..
Ageladas, founder of the Argos school, was thought in ancient times to have been the teacher of Polyclitus. Other pupils were thought to have been Phidias of Athens and Myron of Eleutheres....
6th – 5th century, male.
Active at the end of the 6th and beginning of the 5th centuries BC.
Born in Thasos.
Painter.
Ancient Greek, Archaic Period.
Father and teacher of Polygnotes and Aristophon, Aglaophon I was probably the grandfather of Aglaophon II. He is believed by some to have produced the original ...
5th century, male.
Active in Athens in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Thasos.
Painter. Mythological subjects.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Nephew of Polygnotes and grandson of Aglaophon I, Aglaophon II produced votive paintings including Olympias and Pythias crowning Alcibiades...
5th century, male.
Active in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Born to a family originally from Paros.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Agoracritus was the first in a long line of artists from Paros to find fortune in Attica. He was one of Phidias' closest pupils, becoming the latter's favourite at the time of that sculptor's mature period. A passage in Pliny ( ...
5th century, male.
Active in the second half of the 5th century BC.
Vase painter.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
The cup in the Madrid Archaeological Museum bearing Aison's signature depicts the exploits of Theseus. Two other unsigned cups with similar scenes are undoubtedly related. Aison's masterly design reveals him as an important artist. The elegance of the decoration of the vases shows him to be a successor of the vase painter Aristophanes and a precursor of the Meidias painter....
5th century, male.
Active at the end of the 5th century BC.
Sculptor.
Ancient Greek, Classical Period.
Alcamenes was probably the son of an Athenian cleruch (a colonist who retained Athenian citizenship) living in Lemnos. A follower of his contemporary Phidias, he worked chiefly in Athens and was a representative of the Attic School. Doubt surrounds the dating of his work. According to Pausanias, he executed the west pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (c. 460 BC). Another written source attributes to him a statue of Thrasybulus at the Heracleion in Thebes (in 403 BC). Such longevity seems unlikely, and a number of scholars have posited the existence of an Elder and a Younger Alcamenes. More simply, it is probable that Alcamenes' name remained linked with the west pediment at Olympia at the time of later repairs (c. 421 BC ?). The most reliable dating comes from a reference to a ...
5th century, male.
Painter.
Ancient Greek.
We know from Pliny that Alcimachus was living in 410 BC.
