Full Name: Democritus
Gender: male
Date Born: c. 460 B.C.E.
Date Died: 370 B.C.E.
Home Country/ies: Greece (ancient)
Subject Area(s): ancient, architecture (object genre), Classical, sculpture (visual works), and statues
Career(s): art historians
Overview
Writer whose work, based upon extent fragments, ascribed creative works of art to artists, countering the prevalent view that statues, temples and other works of art were the results of the gods. Democritus further classified and ranked individual artworks, beginning from primitive to complex.
Sources
Kultermann, Udo. The History of Art History. New York: Abaris, 1993, p. 1.