Calypso (painter)

Calypso
Born3rd century BC
DiedUnknown
Known forMention in Pliny's Natural History

Calypso, also known as Kalypso, was a supposed Ancient Greek painter who lived in the 3rd century BC. She is known from a mention in Pliny the Elder's Natural History along with several other prominent female painters.

She is one of the six female artists of antiquity mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History (XL.147–148) in A.D. 77: Timarete, Irene, Calypso, Aristarete, Iaia, Olympias. During the Renaissance, the 14th-century humanist Boccaccio included Calypso in De mulieribus claris (Latin for On Famous Women).