Kora of Sicyon

Kora (Greek: Κόρα) or Callirhoe (c. 650 B.C., Sicyon, ancient Greece) is believed to have been born between 700 BC and 601 BC in the Greek city, Sicyonia.[1] She was said to be the daughter of Dibutades of Sicyon, a potter and sculpture of the time.[2]

Kora of Sicyon is considered to be the first female artist that there is evidence of.[1] She and her father are mentioned in Pliny the Elder's Natural History.[2] Kora drew the shadow of the face of her lover with coal on the wall. Butades immediately recognized the likeness and quickly filled his daughters portrait with clay.[1] This was considered to be the first clay relief and was kept preserved as a gift in the cities nymphaeum until the romans under Lucius Mummius sacked Corinth in 146 BC.[2]