Anaxandra

Not to be confused with Anaxander.

Anaxandra (‹See Tfd›Greek: Ἀναξάνδρα; fl. 220s BC) was an ancient Greek female artist and painter from Greece.[1] She was the daughter and student of Nealkes, a painter of mythological and genre scenes.[2] She painted c. 228 B.C.[3] She is mentioned by Clement of Alexandria, the 2nd century Christian theologian, in a section of his Stromateis (Miscellanies) entitled "Women as Well as Men Capable of Perfection". Clement cites a lost work of the Hellenistic scholar Didymus Chalcenterus (1st century BC) as his source.[4]

  1. ^ Ellet, E. F. (1859). Women artists in all ages and countries. New York: Harper & Bros.
  2. ^ Smith, William (1851). A new classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology, and geography, partly based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 163.
  3. ^ Id.
  4. ^ Marinella, Lucrezia (1999). The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men. Translated by Dunhill, Anne (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780226505503.