tha'sos

Updated: June 25, 2025

While the art of painting was early developed in Greece, certainly as far back as 718 B.C., the first painter of renown was Polygno'tus, of Tha'sos, who went to Athens about 463 B.C., and established there what was called "the Athenian school" of painting.

Marcius Willson - Mosaics of Grecian History