Images of Sappho in Ancient Art

Niobid Painter (470-445 BCE)

Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called "Sappho")
Pompeii

Sappho and Alcaeus - Side B (480-470 BCE)
Brygos Painter. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel.

Sappho and Alcaeus - Side A (480-470 BCE)
Brygos Painter. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel.

Sappho - Side B Detail (5th century BCE)
Tithonos Painter. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel.

Sappho - Side A Detail (5th century BCE)
Tithonos Painter. Line drawing by Valerie Woelfel.

Sappho - Side A (5th century BCE)
Tithonus Painter

Sappho (3rd-4th century CE)
Archaeological Museum of Sparta

Sappho (510-500 BCE)
Sappho Painter

Sappho (440-430 BCE) - Detail
Group of Polygnotos

Sappho (440-430 BCE)
Group of Polygnotos
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Images of Sappho in Western Art

Sappho and Alcaeus (1881)
Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene (1864)
Simeon Solomon

Sappho, Phaon, and Cupid (1809)
Jacques-Louis David

Sappho (1862)
Arnold Böcklin

Sappho (1862)
Arnold Böcklin

Sappho (1774-1859)
Johann Pleikard Bittheuser

Sappho (1813)
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
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