The Artists of Pergamum (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Artists of Pergamum

From late Greek and Roman writers can be gathered a brief list of names of artists who worked in Perga mum and works of art found there. A number of artists' subscriptions excavated at Pergamum, many of which are, unfortunately, very fragmentary, have added to this list. Moreover, some of these names have been identified with those of artists known from other sources, and works of art mentioned by ancient writers have not only been ascribed to some of the...