Kora of Sicyon

Kora (Greek: Κόρα) or Callirhoe (fl. c. 650 BC) is considered to be the first female artist for whom there is evidence.[1]

She is believed to have been born between 700 BC and 601 BC in the Greek city Sicyon.[1] She was said to be the daughter of Butades of Sicyon, a potter and sculpture of the time.[2] She and her father are mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History among the mythic stories of the invention of sculpture.[2][3][4] Kora drew the shadow of the face of her lover with coal on the wall. Butades immediately recognized the likeness and quickly filled his daughter's portrait with clay.[1] This was considered to be the first clay relief and was kept preserved as a gift in Corinth's nymphaeum until the Romans under Lucius Mummius sacked the city in 146 BC.[2]

References
  1. "Kora of Sicyon". Archived from the original on 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  2. "Brooklyn Museum: Kora". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  3. Urlichs, Ludwig von, "Core (2)". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1867.
  4. Pliny, Natural History 35.43.
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