An alphabetical listing of visual artists who were active in (or from) Ancient Greece. This section deals with painters, sculptors, mosaicists and architects. (The Vase Painters are on this page.) Hyperlinked names indicate a path to an individual's profile. Use Ctrl+F (Windows) or Cmd+F (Mac) to locate an artist in the list more quickly.

Venus de Milo
Parian marble, h 2.02 m (6 1/2 ft)
Found at Milo
130-120 BC
Musee du Louvre, Paris
Image scan © Mark Harden's Artchive; used with permission

Visual Artists of Ancient Greece

 

 

Aetion

     Painter

     Active late 4th century BC

 

Agatharchos

      Painter

     Active late 5th century BC

 

Ageladas (Hageladas)

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 520-ca. 450 BC

 

Agorakritos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 450-ca. 420 BC

 

Alkamenes

     Sculptor

     Active second half of the 5th century BC

 

Anaxagoras of Aigina

     Sculptor

     Active early 5th century BC

 

Andronikos of Kyrrhos

     Architect and astronomer

     Active late 2nd - mid-1st century BC

 

Antenor

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 530-ca. 510 BC

 

Antigonos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Pergamon) ca. 250-ca. 200 BC

 

Antiphanes

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 414-ca. 369 BC

 

Antiphilos

     Painter

     Active later 4th - early 3rd century BC

 

Apelles

     Painter

     Active late 4th - early 3rd century BC

 

Apollodoros (the "Shadow Painter")

     Painter

     Active late 5th century BC

 

Apollonios and Tauriskos

     Sculptors in partnership

     Active 2nd century BC

 

Archermos of Chios

     Sculptor

     Active 550 BC or later

 

Aristeides (Aristides)

     Painter, possibly two related painters of the same name

     Active 4th century BC

 

Arkesilaos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Rome) mid-1st century BC

 

Athenion

     Painter

     Active later 4th - early 3rd century BC

 

Boethos of Chalkedon

     Sculptor and metalworker

     Active 2nd century BC

 

Boularchos

     Painter

     Active late 8th century BC

 

Bryaxis

     Sculptor

     Active second half of the 4th century BC

 

Chares of Lindos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 300 BC

 

Bupalos and Athenis

     Sculpting duo of the Archaic period

     Active ca. 540-ca. 537 BC

 

Daidalos (Daedalus)

     Legendary sculptor, craftsman and inventor

     Possibly active ca. 600 BC

 

Damophon

     Sculptor

     Active early 2nd century BC

 

Demetrios of Alexandria

     Painter

     Active mid-2nd century BC

 

Demetrios of Alopeke

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 400-ca. 360 BC

 

Dionysios

     Sculptor

     Active late 2nd century BC

 

Epigonos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Pergamon) ca. 250-ca. 200 BC

 

Euboulides

      Three different sculptors, all related, share this name.

 

      Euboulides

      Active late 4th - early 3rd century BC

 

      Euboulides (ii)

      Active late 3rd century BC

 

      Euboulides (iii)

      Active later 2nd century BC

 

Eumaros

     Painter

     Active late 6th century BC

     

Euphranor

      Painter and sculptor

     Active mid-4th century BC

 

Eutychides

     Sculptor

     Active late 4th - early 3rd century BC

 

Glaukias of Aigina

     Sculptor

     Active early 5th century BC

 

Gnosis

     Mosaicist

     Active ca. 350-300 BC

 

Hegias (Hegesias; Hagesias)

     Sculptor

     Active early 5th century BC

 

Hephaistion

     Mosaicist

     Active 1st half of the 2nd century BC

 

Hermogenes

     Architect

     Active late 3rd - early 2nd century BC

 

Hippodamos

     City planner

     Active 5th century BC

 

Iktinos

     Architect

     Active mid-5th century BC

 

Isigonos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Pergamon) ca. 250-ca. 200 BC

 

Kalamis

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 470-ca. 440 BC

 

Kallikrates (Callicrates)

     Architect

     Active 5th century BC

 

Kallimachos (Callimachus)

     Sculptor

     Active second half of the 5th century BC

 

Kallon

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 500-450 BC

 

Kanachos

     Sculptor

     Active 6th century BC

 

Kanachos (ii)

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 400 BC

 

Kephisodotos

     Sculptor

     Active late 5th century -ca. 360 BC

 

Kimon of Kleonai

     Painter

     Active late 6th - early 5th century BC

 

Kleanthes of Corinth

     Painter

     Active? Reportedly, though dates are forever a mystery.

 

Kolotes

     Sculptor

     Active last third of the 5th century BC

 

Kresilas

     Sculptor

     Active second half of the 5th century BC

 

Kritios (Kritias) and Nesiotes

     Two sculptors who worked together

     Active early 5th century BC

 

Leochares

      Sculptor

     Active later 4th century BC

 

Lykios

     Sculptor

     Active ca. mid-5th century BC

 

Lysistratos

     Sculptor

     Active later 4th century BC

 

Lysippos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 370-ca. 300 BC

 

Melanthios

     Painter

     Active later 4th century BC

 

Mikon

     Painter and sculptor

     Active early 5th century BC

 

Mnesikles

     Architect

     Active 430s BC

 

Myron of Eleutherai

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 470-ca. 440 BC

 

Naukydes

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 420-ca. 390 BC

 

Nikias

     Painter

     Active second half of the 4th century BC

 

Nikomachos of Thebes

     Painter

     Active mid-4th century BC

 

Nikosthenes

     Potter

     Active ca. 550-ca. 505 BC

 

Onatas

     Sculptor

     Active 1st half of the 5th century BC

 

Paionios of Mende

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 430-ca. 420 BC

 

Pamphilos

     Painter

     Active early 4th century BC

 

Panainos

     Painter

     Active second half of the 5th century BC

 

Parrhasios

     Painter

     Active late 5th - early 4th century BC

 

Pasiteles

     Sculptor and writer

     Active (in Rome) 1st century BC

 

Pausias

     Painter

     Active ca. 350-ca. 300 BC

 

Pheidias

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 490-430 BC

 

Philiskos of Rhodes

     Sculptor; possibly painted

     Active ca. 100 BC

 

Philoxenos of Eretria

     Painter

     Active late 4th century BC

 

Polygnotos of Thasos

     Wall painter and sculptor

     Active ca. 475-450 BC

 

Polykleitos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 450-ca. 415 BC

 

Polykles (Polycles)

     Sculptor, probably at least two sculptors

      Active mid-2nd century BC

 

Praxiteles

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 370-330 BC

 

Protogenes

     Painter and bronze sculptor

     Active (in Rhodes) late 4th century BC

 

Pythagoras of Rhegion

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 475-ca. 450 BC

 

Pytheos

     Architect

     Active (in Asia Minor) ca. 370-ca. 33 BC

 

Rhoikos and Theodoros

     A pair of architects and, possibly, some sort of artists

     Active mid-6th century BC

 

Silanion

     Sculptor

     Active late 4th century BC

 

Skopas

     Sculptor and architect

     Active mid-4th century BC

 

Sophilos

     Mosaicist

     Active (in Egypt) ca. 200 BC

 

Sosos

     Mosaicist

     Active (in Pergamon) ca. mid-3rd to mid-2nd century BC

 

Stephanos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Rome) ca. 1st century BC

 

Sthennis

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 325-ca. 280 BC

 

Stratonikos

     Sculptor

     Active (in Pergamon) ca. 250-ca. 200 BC

 

Strongylion

     Sculptor

     Active late 5th century-ca. 365 BC

 

Theokosmos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 430-ca. 400 BC

 

Thrasymedes

     Sculptor

     Active early 4th century BC

 

Timanthes

     Painter

     Active late 5th or early 4th century BC

 

Timarchides

     Two sculptors, same name and family, flip a coin

     Active 2nd to early 1st century BC

 

Timokles

     Sculptor

     Active mid-2nd century BC

 

Timomachos

     Painter

     Active 1st century BC

 

Timotheos

     Sculptor

     Active ca. 380-ca. 350 BC

 

Zenodoros

     Bronze sculptor

     Active (in Rome and Gaul) mid-1st century AD

 

Zeuxis

      Painter

     Active late 5th - early 4th century BC