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Achilles Painter  

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31 October 2011
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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....

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Adolus, Joannes  

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Greek, 16th century, male.

Active in Nicaea before 1588.

Painter. History painting, portraits.

According to Zani, Adolus reproduced an old Byzantine painting dating from the 14th century, the Portrait of Epiphanias, Bishop of Constance.

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Aetion  

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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 ...

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Agatharchus of Samos (Son of Eudemus)  

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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...

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Aglaophon I  

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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 ...

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Aglaophon II (Son of Aristophon)  

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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...

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Alcimachus  

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5th century, male.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

We know from Pliny that Alcimachus was living in 410 BC.

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Alcimachus  

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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)....

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Alcisthene  

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female.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

Alcisthene is perhaps the name of a woman painter from antiquity, but scholars disagree on the meaning of the relevant passage in Pliny. '(Pinxit) Alkisthene saltatorem' (Alcisthene [painted] the dancer) should perhaps be read as 'Alkisthenem saltatorem' ([painted] the dancer Alkisthene). In the latter case, Alcisthene would be the name of a (male) dancer depicted in a painting from the Greek period....

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Alexander  

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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....

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Altamura  

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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....

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Altamura, Johann  

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Greek, 19th century, male.

Born 1852, in Athens; died 1878.

Painter. Waterscapes, seascapes.

A friend of the architect H.C. Hansen, Altamura visited Copenhagen where he attended the fine arts academy from 1873 to 1876. He was primarily a painter of seascapes.

Copenhagen, 3 June 1976...

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Amphiaraus  

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6th century, male.

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

Painter, potter.

Ancient Greek.

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Anagnostaras, Theodor C.  

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31 October 2011
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Greek, 20th century, male.

Active in the USA.

Born in Athens.

Painter, draughtsman. Figures, nudes, portraits, interiors with figures, landscapes, seascapes.

Theodor Anagnostaras studied initially in Athens, but having started singing at the age of six and trained at the National Music Conservatoire, he emigrated to the USA to continue his career as a baritone. He then felt an irresistible need to paint and abandoned his singing career in ...

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Anapolitaky, Emmanuel  

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Greek, 20th century, male.

Born in Crete.

Painter.

A student of Roilo Castelodro, Emmanuel Anapolitaky was a portrait and still-life painter who he exhibited in Paris at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1926 and 1927.

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Anaxander  

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male.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

Anaxander is mentioned by Pliny as a minor artist.

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Anaxandra  

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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.

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Anaxenor  

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male.

Active in Magnesia.

Painter.

Ancient Greek.

The portrait of a singer is attributed to Anaxenor.

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Andreadakis, Dimitris  

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Greek, 20th – 21st century, male.

Active in France from 1991.

Born 1964, in Chania (Crete).

Painter. Interiors, still-lifes.

Dimitris Andreadakis graduated from the school of fine arts in Athens in 1990 and moved to Paris in 1991 to pursue his studies at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. His compatriot Alkis Pierrakos wrote of him: 'In his paintings, which are often big, we are struck by the rigour of the overall colour and immediately sense how much care he has put into the complementarity that can be created by just three elements - volume, colour and.'...

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Andreadis, Ianna  

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Greek, 20th – 21st century, female.

Active in France.

Born 1960, in Athens.

Painter (including gouache), draughtswoman, illustrator, lithographer. Landscapes, seascapes, animals. Artist's books.

Ianna Andreadis studied at the schools of fine art in Dijon, Bourges and Paris between 1978 and 1983. She studied prehistory at the Institut d'Art et d'Archéologie de Paris in ...