I. Divinities, Royal Personages, and Sacred Animals (ix) TABLE OF GREEK AND ROMAN ARTISTS. The following list and dates of eminent artists of Ancient Greece and Italy has been taken from Julius Sillig's Dictionary of the Artists of Antiquity. Olymp. B.C. Names of Artists, &c. I. XVIII. 776 Dædalus of Athens. Smilis of Ægina. Dibutades of Corinth, and his daughter Core, first make Philocles the Egyptian, or Cleanthes the Corinthian, invent painting in outline. Their contemporaries are Arego, Crato of Sicyon, and Saurias of Samos. Ardices the Corinthian, and Telephanes I. the Sicyonian, exercise the art of painting. (The precise dates of the above facts are uncertain.) About this period flourished Chersiphro of Cnossus, the architect, and Telecles and Theodorus I., sons of Rhocus. In a rather later period Metagenes I., son of Chersiphro, Pæonius I. of Ephesus, and Learchus of Rhegium. 708 Shortly before this time Bularchus, the painter, appeared in Asia. XXV. 680 XXIX. 664 XXX. 660 XXXV. 640 XLII. 612 XLVIII. 588 L. Glaucus 1. invents the soldering of iron. Eucheir II. and Eugrammus, Corinthian modellers, exercise their art in Italy. Cleophantus, the Corinthian, flourishes. Malas of Chios appears as a sculptor. Micciades, the Chian, practises sculpture. Mnesarchus the Etrurian, the father of Pythagoras, becomes eminent as an engraver of precious stones. 580 Dipænus and Scyllis, natives of Crete, attain great eminence in sculpturing marble. About this period flourished also Anthermus or Archeneus of Chios, Byres of Naxos, and Endoëus the Athenian. LVIII. 548 LIX. LX. LXI. LXII. LXVI. LXVIII. LXX. Names of Artists, &c. Tectæus and Angelio make the statue of the Delian 544 Syadras and Chartas, Lacedæmonian statuaries, flourish 540 Bathycles the Magnesian, a statuary, and Spintharus, an architect of Corinth, flourish. About this time Antistates, Callæschrus, Antimachides, and Porinus, architects, lay the foundation of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens. 536 Clectas, of Sicyon, the statuary. 532 Demeas I. of Crotona, statuary, flourishes. 520 Ageladas of Argos, statuary, makes a statue of Anochus, a victor in the Olympic games. 516 Ageladas makes a chariot in honour of the victory of Cleosthenes at Olympia, and about the same period ennobles a victory obtained by Timasitheus. Callo I. of Egina, Chrysothemis and Eutelidas of Argos, and Gitiadas the Lacedæmonian, flourish as statuaries. 508 Amphicrates, the statuary, makes the figure of a lioness. Antenor makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton. Aristocles II. and his brother Canachus I., both of Sicyon, flourish as statuaries. This was the age also of Clearchus of Rhegium. 500 Hegesias and Hegias of Athens, Menæchmus and Soidas of Naupactus, Telephanes II. of Phocis, and Arcesilaus I. flourish as statuaries. Aglaopho I. of Thasos, father of POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, exercises the art of painting. Sillax of Rhegium, the painter, flourishes. 493 Demophilus I. and Gorgasus practise the arts of painting and making plaster-casts at Rome. Stomius, statuary, flourishes. Glaucias of Ægina, statuary, flourishes. Pythagoras I. of Rhegium begins to exercise the art of statuary. About this time PHEIDIAS is born. Ascarus, the Theban, forms for the Thessalians a statue of Jupiter out of the spoils of the Phocians. Amyclæus, Diyllus, and Chionis prepare several statues out of the spoils taken from the Thessalians by the Phocians, which are dedicated by the latter at Delphi. Aristomedo is also engaged in this undertaking. LXXI. 4. LXXII. LXXIII. 492 488 LXXV. LXXVI. LXXVIII. LXXIX. LXXX. LXXXI. Names of Artists, &c. 480 Synnoo of Ægina, statuary, flourishes. Aristomedes and Socrates, two Theban statuaries, flourish. Critias Nesiota makes statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, which are almost immediately erected. 476 Anaxagoras of Egina makes a statue of Jupiter at the request of several states of Greece, which had participated in the victory over Xerxes at Salamis. Dionysius 1. and Glaucus of Argos, and Simo of Ægina, flourish. Hippodamus, an architect of Miletus, fortifies the Peiraeus at Athens. 468 Onatas of Ægina and Calamis make a chariot in honour of Hiero, lately deceased, which is afterwards dedicated at Olympia. Their contemporaries are Ageladas of Argos, Hegias of Athens, Calliteles, Calynthus, Hippias, Sophroniscus, and Pasiteles I. Ageladas and Hippias here mentioned were instructors of Pheidias. 464 Demophilus II. of Himera, and Neseas of Thasos, flourish as painters. 460 456 448 444 438 Sostratus I., statuary; Mico I. of Athens, statuary and painter; and probably Olympus, statuary, flourish. To this period likewise belong POLYGNOTUS and Aristopho, painters of Thasos, and Dionysius of Colopho, a painter, and probably Cimo of Cleonæ, together with Arcesilaus II. and Nicanor of Paros, who practised the same art. Ptolichus of Corcyra, statuary, flourishes. Soon after this year Ageladas II. of Argos prepares a statue of Jupiter for the Messenians occupying Naupactus. Acestor of Cnossus, and Ptolichus of Ægina, flourish as statuaries; Scymnus as a statuary and engraver, and Eucadmus as a sculptor. PHEIDIAS, of Athens, attains great eminence. Alcamenes, an Athenian, and Agoracritus the Parian, both PHEIDIAS dedicates his statue of Athene, made of ivory and LXXXIII. LXXXIV. LXXXV. 3. |