Flashcards: Ancient Greek painters

Antiphilus (Ἀντίφιλος) was an ancient Greek painter from Naucratis, Egypt, in the age of Alexander the Great.

Polygnotus /ˌpɒlɪɡˈnoʊtəs/ (Greek: Πολύγνωτος Polygnotos) was an ancient Greek painter from the middle of the 5th century BC.

The Brygos Painter was an ancient Greek Attic red-figure vase painter of the Late Archaic period.

Parrhasius of Ephesus (Greek: Παρράσιος) was one of the greatest painters of Ancient Greece.

Pamphilus of Amphipolis (Ancient Greek: Πάμφιλος, 4th century BC) was a Macedonian distinguished painter and head of Sicyonian school.

Zeuxis (/ˈzjuːksɪs/; Greek: Ζεῦξις) (of Heraclea) was a painter who flourished during the 5th century BC.

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

Eupompus (Ancient Greek: Εὔπομπος) was the founder of the great Sicyonic school of painting which flourished in the 4th century BC at Sicyon in Ancient Greece.

Protogenes (/proʊˈtɒdʒəˌniz/; Greek: Πρωτογένης; fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek painter, a contemporary rival of Apelles.

Boëthus (Greek: Βόηθος) was a Greek sculptor of the Hellenistic age.

Echion (Ancient Greek: Έχίων), also known as Aetion, was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana.

Aglaophon (Gr. Ἀγλαοφῶν) was an ancient Greek painter, born on the island of Thasos.

Aristophon was a Greek painter, mentioned by Pliny the Elder.

Apaturius of Alabanda was a scene-painter of ancient Greece, whose mode of painting the scene of the little theatre at Tralles is described by Vitruvius, with the criticism made upon it by Licinius.

Timarete (or Thamyris, Tamaris; 5th century BC), was an ancient Greek painter.

Timanthes of Cythnus (Greek: Τιμάνϑης) was an ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC.

Micon the Younger of Athens was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC.

Alexander (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος) was the name of a number of different artists in ancient Greece and Rome: * Alexander, a painter, one of whose productions is extant, painted on a marble tablet which bears his name.

Antorides was a painter of ancient Greece.

Nicomachus of Thebes (Greek: Νικόμαχος; fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek painter, a native of Thebes, and a contemporary of the great painters of the Classical period; his father and son were also painters.

Euphranor of Corinth (middle of the 4th century BC) was the only Greek artist who excelled both as a sculptor and as a painter.

Anaxandra (Greek: Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece.

Peiraikos, or Piraeicus, was an Ancient Greek painter of uncertain date and location.

Theon of Samos (Ancient Greek: Θέων) was an ancient Greek painter during the era of Alexander the Great, is mentioned by Quintilian as a good artist of the second rank.

Melanthius (Μελάνθιος) was an ancient Greek painter of the 4th century BC.