List of Greek artists

Part of a series on

Greeks

* Etymology
* Greek names

By country

Native communities

* Greece
* Cyprus

* Albania
* Italy
* Russia and Ukraine
* Turkey

Greek diaspora

* Australia
* Melbourne
* Canada
* Toronto
* Germany
* United Kingdom
* United States

Groups by region

Modern Greece:

* Macedonians
* Sarakatsani
* Maniots
* Tsakonians

Constantinople and Asia Minor:

* Cappadocians
* Constantinopolitan Greeks
* Phanariots
* Karamanlides
* Pontic
* Caucasus
* Crimea

Africa:

* Egyptiots
* Ethiopian Greeks
* Sudanese Greeks

Other regions:

* Cypriots
* Griko
* Urums

Other groups:

* Aromanians
* Arvanites
* Megleno-Romanians
* Slavophones
* Souliotes

Greek culture

* Art
* Cinema
* Cuisine
* Dance
* Dress
* Education
* Flag
* Language
* Literature
* Music
* Politics
* Religion
* Sport
* Television
* Theatre

Religion

* Greek Orthodox Church
* Greek Roman Catholicism
* Greek Byzantine Catholicism
* Greek Evangelicalism
* Judaism
* Islam
* Hellenism

Languages and dialects

Greek:

* Australian
* Calabrian
* Cappadocian
* Constantinopolitan
* Cretan
* Cypriot
* Griko
* Hellenoromani
* Himariote
* Maniot
* Mariupol
* Pontic
* Tsakonian
* Yevanic
* Greeklish

Other languages

* Aromanian
* Arvanitika
* Greek Sign Language
* Karamanli Turkish
* Megleno-Romanian
* Slavic
* Urum

History of Greece
(Ancient · Byzantine · Ottoman)

* v
* t
* e

This is a list of Greek artists from the antiquity to today. Artists have been categorised according to their main artistic profession and according to the major historical period they lived in: the Ancient (until the foundation of the Byzantine Empire), the Byzantine (until the fall of Constantinople in 1453), Cretan Renaissance 1453-1660, Heptanese School 1660-1830 and the Modern period (1830-today). Artists working after World War II are considered Contemporary.

## Ancient Greece

[edit]

### Poets

[edit]

Main article: List of Ancient Greek poets

### Painters

[edit]

* Agatharchus
* Antiphilus
* Apelles
* Apollodorus (painter)
* Aristides of Thebes
* Cimon of Cleonae
* Echion (painter)
* Euphranor
* Eupompus
* Melanthius
* Panaenus
* Parrhasius
* Pausias
* Polyeidos (poet)
* Polygnotus
* Protogenes
* Theon of Samos
* Zeuxis

### Vase painters

[edit]

Main article: List of Greek vase painters

### Potters

[edit]

* Andokides
* Brygos
* Ergoteles
* Ergotimos
* Euphronios
* Euthymides
* Exekias
* Exekias
* Hermogenes
* Kachrylion
* Nearchos
* Nikosthenes
* Phintias
* Phrynos
* Sokles

### Architects

[edit]

* Apollodorus of Damascus
* Callimachus (sculptor)
* Chersiphron
* Dinocratis
* Eupalinus
* Iktinos
* Kallikrates
* Metagenes
* Mnesikles
* Aeulius Nicon
* Philon
* Pythis
* Satyros
* Sostratus of Cnidus

### Novelists

[edit]

* Achilles Tatius
* Antonius Diogenes
* Chariton
* Heliodorus of Emesa
* Iamblichus (novelist)
* Longus
* Lucian
* Xenophon of Ephesus

Part of a series on

Greeks

* Etymology
* Greek names

By country

Native communities

* Greece
* Cyprus

* Albania
* Italy
* Russia and Ukraine
* Turkey

Greek diaspora

* Australia
* Melbourne
* Canada
* Toronto
* Germany
* United Kingdom
* United States

Groups by region

Modern Greece:

* Macedonians
* Sarakatsani
* Maniots
* Tsakonians

Constantinople and Asia Minor:

* Cappadocians
* Constantinopolitan Greeks
* Phanariots
* Karamanlides
* Pontic
* Caucasus
* Crimea

Africa:

* Egyptiots
* Ethiopian Greeks
* Sudanese Greeks

Other regions:

* Cypriots
* Griko
* Urums

Other groups:

* Aromanians
* Arvanites
* Megleno-Romanians
* Slavophones
* Souliotes

Greek culture

* Art
* Cinema
* Cuisine
* Dance
* Dress
* Education
* Flag
* Language
* Literature
* Music
* Politics
* Religion
* Sport
* Television
* Theatre

Religion

* Greek Orthodox Church
* Greek Roman Catholicism
* Greek Byzantine Catholicism
* Greek Evangelicalism
* Judaism
* Islam
* Hellenism

Languages and dialects

Greek:

* Australian
* Calabrian
* Cappadocian
* Constantinopolitan
* Cretan
* Cypriot
* Griko
* Hellenoromani
* Himariote
* Maniot
* Mariupol
* Pontic
* Tsakonian
* Yevanic
* Greeklish

Other languages

* Aromanian
* Arvanitika
* Greek Sign Language
* Karamanli Turkish
* Megleno-Romanian
* Slavic
* Urum

History of Greece
(Ancient · Byzantine · Ottoman)

* v
* t
* e

### Actors

[edit]

* Metrobius
* Thespis

### Dramatists and playwrights

[edit]

* Achaeus of Eretria
* Achaeus of Syracuse
* Aeschylus
* Agathon
* Alexander Aetolus
* Alexis
* Anaxandrides
* Antiphanes
* Aphareus (writer)
* Apollodorus of Carystus
* Aristarchus of Tegea
* Aristophanes
* Carcinus (writer)
* Chaeremon
* Choerilus (tragic poet)
* Cleophon (poet)
* Cratinus
* Diphilus
* Epicharmus of Kos
* Eupolis
* Euripides
* Hegemon of Thasos
* Herodas
* Ion of Chios
* Iophon
* Menander
* Neophron
* Nicochares
* Pherecrates
* Philemon (poet)
* Phrynichus (comic poet)
* Phrynichus (tragic poet)
* Plato (comic poet)
* Pratinas
* Rhinthon
* Sophocles
* Sositheus
* Strattis
* Theodectes
* Xenocles

## Byzantine Greece

[edit]

### Poets

[edit]

* Christopher of Mytilene
* Michael Glycas
* John Mauropous
* Vitsentzos Kornaros
* Michael Tarchaniota Marullus
* Paul the Silentiary
* Manuel Philes
* George Pisida
* Michael Psellos
* John Tzetzes

### Painters

[edit]

* Theodore Apsevdis
* Michael Astrapas and Eutychios
* Theophanes the Greek
* Manuel Panselinos
* Ioannis Pagomenos
* Eulalios

### Architects

[edit]

* Anthemius of Tralles
* Isidore of Miletus

### Writers

[edit]

* Nicephorus Blemmydes
* Nicholas Cabasilas
* Cassianus Bassus
* Demetrius Chalcondylas
* Michael Choniates
* Coluthus
* Constantine Manasses
* Constantine VII
* Cosmas Indicopleustes
* Eustathius of Thessalonica
* Patriarch Gregory II of Constantinople
* Hesychius of Miletus
* Kekaumenos
* Leontios of Neapolis
* Leontius (writer)
* Joannes Laurentius Lydus
* Mazaris
* Patriarch Photios I of Constantinople
* Leontius Pilatus
* Rhetorius
* Simeon Seth
* Theodore Prodromus
* Theodorus Hyrtacenus
* Anna Comnena
* Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus
* Isaac of Nineveh
* John of Damascus
* Michael Psellos
* Procopius
* Zozimus

## Post Byzantine Greece

[edit]

### Theater

[edit]

* Georgios Chortatzis
* Vitsentzos Kornaros

### Music

[edit]

* Francisco Leontaritis
* Michele Stratico
* Konstantinos Agathophron Nikolopoulos
* Petros Peloponnesios

### Painting

[edit]

#### Italian and Spanish Renaissance Painters

[edit]

* Marco Basaiti
* El Greco
* Ioannis Permeniates
* Victor
* Belisario Corenzio
* Antonio Vassilacchi
* Jorge Manuel Theotocópuli

#### Cretan Renaissance Painters

[edit]

* Angelos Akotantos
* Antonios Papadopoulos
* Andreas Pavias
* Angelos Pitzamanos
* Andreas Ritzos
* Nikolaos Tzafouris
* Michael Damaskinos
* Emmanuel Lambardos
* Emmanuel Tzanfournaris
* Fragkos Katelanos
* Ioannis Apakas
* Georgios Klontzas
* Markos Bathas
* Thomas Bathas
* Onufri
* Theophanes the Cretan
* Elias Moskos
* Ioannis Moskos
* Leos Moskos
* Franghias Kavertzas
* Emmanuel Tzanes
* Konstantinos Tzanes
* Victor (iconographer)
* Dionysius of Fourna

#### Heptanese School Painters

[edit]

* Stephanos Tzangarolas
* Nikolaos Kallergis
* Spyridon Sperantzas
* Spiridione Roma
* Theodore Poulakis
* Nikolaos Doxaras
* Nikolaos Kantounis
* Nikolaos Koutouzis
* Gerasimos Pitsamanos
* Spyridon Ventouras
* Konstantin Kapıdağlı

#### Neo-Hellenikos Diafotismos in Painting

[edit]

* Panagiotis Doxaras
* Christodoulos Kalergis
* Eustație Altini
* Ioannis Kornaros

## Modern Greece

[edit]

### Painters

[edit]

* Constantine Andreou
* Christodoulos Aronis
* Giorgio de Chirico
* Alexandros Christofis
* Tasos Chonias
* Hermon di Giovanno
* Electros
* Nikos Engonopoulos
* Costas Evangelatos
* Demetrios Farmakopoulos
* Alekos Fassianos
* Demetrios Galanis
* Katerina Grolliou
* Nicholaos Gysis
* Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas
* Theophilos Hatzimihail
* Georgios Jakobides
* Christos Kapralos
* Photios Kontoglou
* Spyros Koukoulomatis
* Kourouniotis
* Marios Loizides
* Nikiphoros Lytras
* Yiannis Moralis
* Theocharis Mores
* Dimitris Mytaras
* Nicos Nicolaides
* Nikos Nikolaou
* Périclès Pantazis
* George Papassavas
* Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki
* Stass Paraskos
* Konstantinos Parthenis
* Yiannis Poulakas
* Yiannis Psychopedis
* Penelope Schizodimou
* Yiannis Spyropoulos
* Yannis Stavrou
* Nikos Stratakis
* Panayiotis Tetsis
* Epameinondas Thomopoulos
* Yannis Tsarouchis
* Alexandros Tzannis
* Antonio Vassilacchi
* Spyros Vassiliou
* Lydia Venieri
* Konstantinos Volanakis
* Constantin Xenakis
* Nikolaos Xydias Typaldos
* Odysseus Yakoumakis
* Vasileia Sarri

### Sculptors

[edit]

* Joannis Avramidis
* Constantine Andreou
* Chryssa
* Kostas Dikefalos
* Aggelika Korovessi
* Jannis Kounellis
* Memos Makris
* Thodoros Papadimitriou
* Thodoros Papayiannis
* Nikolaos Pavlopoulos
* Pavlos Prosalentis
* Takis
* Vassilis Vassili
* Electros (also known as Babis Vekris)
* Lydia Venieri
* Constantin Xenakis
* Iannis Xenakis

### Film directors

[edit]

* Kostas Andritsos
* Theo Angelopoulos
* Michael Cacoyannis
* George Pan Cosmatos
* Costa Gavras
* Iakovos Kambanelis
* Giorgos Konstadinou
* Nikos Koundouros
* Manakis brothers
* Nico Mastorakis
* Laura Neri
* Dimitris Papamichael
* Nikos Papatakis
* Pavlos Tassios
* Vassilis Photopoulos
* Yannis Smaragdis
* George Tzavellas
* Agnès Varda
* Dimitris Voyatzis

### Poets

[edit]

* Aris Alexandrou
* Manolis Anagnostakis
* Olga Broumas
* Demetrios Capetanakis
* Constantine P. Cavafy
* Athanasios Christopoulos
* Nikos Dimou
* Odysseas Elytis
* Andreas Embirikos
* Nikos Engonopoulos
* Costas Evangelatos
* Rigas Feraios
* Nikos Gatsos
* Demetris Th. Gotsis
* Sotiris Kakisis
* Ektor Kaknavatos
* Andreas Kalvos
* Iakovos Kambanelis
* Nikos Karouzos
* Kostas Karyotakis
* Nikos Kavvadias
* Nikos Kazantzakis
* Antigone Kefala
* Napoleon Lapathiotis
* Dimitris Lyacos
* Jean Moréas
* Kostis Palamas
* Alexandros Panagoulis
* Lefteris Papadopoulos
* George Pavlopoulos
* Maria Polydouri
* Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves
* Yiannis Ritsos
* Miltos Sachtouris
* Giorgos Seferis
* Angelos Sikelianos
* Takis Sinopoulos
* Giannis Skarimpas
* Dionysios Solomos
* Alexandros Soutsos
* Alexis Stamatis
* Theodore Stephanides
* Nanos Valaoritis
* Kostas Varnalis
* Vassilis Vassilikos
* Haris Vlavianos
* Yannis Yfantis

### Novelists

[edit]

* Andreas Karkavitsas
* Georgios Balanos
* Penelope Delta
* Apostolos Doxiadis
* Vicky Hadjivassiliou
* Andreas Kalvos
* Christos Kapralos
* Nikos Kazantzakis
* Photios Kontoglou
* Adamantios Korais
* Ioannis Kottounios
* Yannis Makriyannis
* Menis Koumantareas
* Alexandros Papadiamantis
* Zacharias Papantoniou
* Pythagoras Papastamatiou
* Ioannis Psycharis
* Giannis Skarimpas
* Soti Triantafyllou
* Vassilis Vassilikos
* Demetrius Vikelas
* Alki Zei

### Dramatists and playwrights

[edit]

* Angelos Terzakis
* Crates (comic poet)
* Apostolos Doxiadis
* Nikos Kazantzakis
* Dimitris Lyacos
* M. Karagatsis
* Nicos Nicolaides
* Dimitris Psathas
* Alexandros Rhizos Rhankaves
* Giannis Skarimpas

### Actors

[edit]

Main article: List of Greeks

### Singers

[edit]

Main article: List of Greeks

### Musicians

[edit]

Main article: List of Greeks

#### Ancient period

[edit]

* Alypius
* Terpander

#### Modern period

[edit]

* Rita Abatzi
* Maurice Abravanel
* Art Alexakis
* Louis Demetrius Alvanis
* Costas Andreou
* Theodore Antoniou
* Grigoris Asikis
* Nikolas Asimos
* Gina Bachauer
* Arion
* Yiorgos Batis
* Grigoris Bithikotsis
* Miltiades Caridis
* Pavlos Carrer
* Petros Christo
* Nikos Christodoulou
* Jani Christou
* Christos Dantis
* Dionysios Demetis
* Odysseas Dimitriadis
* Marina Diamandis
* Dimitris Dragatakis
* Antiochos Evangelatos
* Sarah P.
* Kostas Exarhakis
* Yorgos Foudoulis
* Alexander Frey
* Gus G.
* Katy Garbi
* Michalis Genitsaris
* Christos Govetas
* Manos Hadjidakis
* Alkinoos Ioannidis
* Sotiris Kakisis
* George Kallis
* Manolis Kalomiris
* Iakovos Kambanelis
* Alex Kapranos
* Eleni Karaindrou
* Herbert von Karajan
* Nikos Karvelas
* Antonios Katinaris
* Bob Katsionis
* Leonidas Kavakos
* Stelios Kazantzidis
* Areti Ketime
* Panayiotis Kokoras
* Iakovos Kolanian
* Stavros Koujioumtzis
* Akis Katsoupakis
* Rena Kyriakou
* Andreas Lagios
* Alexandre Lagoya
* Tim Lambesis
* Leo Leandros
* Manos Loizos
* Andreas Makris
* Sokratis Malamas
* Ilan Manouach
* Nikolaos Mantzaros
* Giannis Markopoulos
* Kostas Martakis
* Alex Martinez
* Thanos Mikroutsikos
* Dimitris Mitropoulos
* Kostas Mountakis
* Georges Moustaki
* Orianthi Panagaris
* Tzimis Panousis
* Lefteris Papadimitriou
* Lefteris Papadopoulos
* Thanassis Papakonstantinou
* Elena Paparizou
* Apostolos Paraskevas
* Stelios Perpiniadis
* Phivos
* Sadahzinia
* Sakis Rouvas
* Spyros Samaras
* Dionysis Savvopoulos
* Kyriakos Sfetsas
* Dimitris Sgouros
* Pavlos Sidiropoulos
* Nikos Skalkottas
* Kostas Skarvelis
* Camille-Marie Stamaty
* Giorgos Theofanous
* Marios Tokas
* Sakis Tolis
* Michalis Travlos
* Tatiana Troyanos
* Iovan Tsaous
* Vassilis Tsitsanis
* Markos Vamvakaris
* Despina Vandi
* Vangelis
* Marios Varvoglis
* Anna Vissi
* Haris Xanthoudakis
* Stavros Xarhakos
* Iannis Xenakis
* Nikos Xilouris
* Nikos Xydakis
* Spyridon Xyndas
* Mirka Yemendzakis
* Yanni
* Savvas Ysatis

### Composers

[edit]

Main article: List of Greek composers

## Contemporary Artists

[edit]

### Visual Artists (mixed or new media, interdisciplinary, photography, film, performance, other)

[edit]

* Loukia Alavanou
* Andreas Angelidakis
* Manolis Anastasakos
* Aggelos Antonopoulos
* Arelis
* Nikos Arvanitis
* Bill Balaskas
* Kostas Bassanos
* Pantelis Chandris
* Nikos Charalambidis
* Dionisis Christofilogiannis
* Anastasia Douka
* Dora Economou
* Eirene Efstathiou
* Stelios Faitakis
* Alexandros Georgiou
* Marina Gioti
* Maria Glyka
* Guerrilla Optimists
* Effie Halivopoulou
* Zoe Hatziyannaki
* Dionisis Kavallieratos
* Giorgos Kazazis
* Panos Kokkinias
* Georgia Kotretsos
* Marinos Koutsomichalis
* Maria Loizidou
* Andreas Lolis
* Dimitrios Skalkotos
* Panos Kokkinias
* Miltos Manetas
* Lena Mitsolidou
* Nina Papaconstantinou
* Agelos Papadimitriou
* Maria Papadimitriou
* Nikos Papadimitriou
* Ilias Papailiakis
* Nina Pappa
* Antonis Pittas
* Poka-Yo
* Afroditi Psarra
* Madalina Psoma
* Thalia Raftopoulou
* Georgia Sagri
* Kostis Stafylakis
* Eva Stefani
* Stefania Strouza
* Penelope Schizodimou
* Lina Theodorou
* Panos Tsagaris
* Giorgos Tserionis
* Kostas Tsolis
* Maria Varela
* George-Maran Varthalitis
* Alexandros Vasmoulakis
* Kostis Velonis
* Vangelis Vlahos
* Vassilis Vlastaras
* Zafos Xagoraris
* Myrto Xanthopoulou
* Yorgos Zois

## Art Historians

[edit]

* Manolis Hatzidakis

## Art Curators

[edit]

* Dimitios Spyrou
* Evita Tsokanta
* Elpida Karaba
* Iliana Fokianaki
* Maya Tounta
* Kika Kyriakakou
* Ioanna Gerakidi

## Art Magazines | Journals | websites

[edit]

* peri-technes
* enterprise projects

## Nonprofit organisations

[edit]

THE TELOS SOCIETY ARCAthens ARCH Kaktos Project

## References

[edit]

* v
* t
* e

Lists of artists from Europe

Sovereign states|

* Albania
* Andorra
* Armenia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
*   * Italy
* Kazakhstan
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Netherlands
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* San Marino
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* England
* Northern Ireland
* Scotland
* Wales

States with limited
recognition|

* Abkhazia
* Kosovo
* Northern Cyprus
* South Ossetia
* Transnistria

Dependencies and
other entities|

* Åland
* Faroe Islands
* Gibraltar
* Guernsey
* Isle of Man
* Jersey
* Svalbard

* v
* t
* e

Lists of artists by nationality

* Afghanistan
* Albania
* Algeria
* Andorra
* Argentina
* Armenia
* Australia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahamas
* Bangladesh
* Belarus
* Benin
* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Botswana
* Brazil
* Bulgaria
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Canada
* Chile
* China
* Colombia
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Denmark
* Dominican Republic
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* Eritrea
* Estonia
* Ethiopia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Ghana
* Greece
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Hungary
* Iceland
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Ivory Coast
* Japan
* Kazakhstan
* Kenya
* Kuwait
* Latvia
* Lebanon
* Libya
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malaysia
* Malta
* Mexico
* Moldova
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Nepal
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Nigeria
* North Macedonia
* Norway
* Pakistan
* Palestine
* Peru
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Serbia
* Singapore
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* South Africa
* Spain
* Sudan
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Syria
* Taiwan
* Tanzania
* Togo
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Uganda
* Ukraine
* United Arab Emirates
* United Kingdom
* United States
* Uruguay
* Venezuela
* Vietnam
* Yemen
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template